The phrase "athletes measuring" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where athletes are assessing or quantifying something, such as performance, physical attributes, or statistics.
Example: "The athletes measuring their times during the trial run were eager to see their improvements."
Alternatives: "athletes assessing" or "athletes evaluating".
But one of the most profound pleasures of sport is the sight of young athletes measuring themselves against the deeds of the past, using the same parameters to add their own layer to its history.
Firstly, an open-ended-questionnaire (qualitative phase) was filled out by 346 youth athletes, measuring socioeconomic status (residence, parent's educational level, parent's job and income) besides athlete's parental support perception.
His afterlife, like that of most athletes, never measured up.
All athletes were measured today prior to competition by a classifier and all were approved for competition".
Skiing movement of 12 experienced, recreational level athletes was measured for nine different speed and slope angle combinations.
With his fellow coach Dakarai Moye, Norford has created a teaching environment that encourages athletes to measure themselves against the next level of competition.
It has a database of more than 3,000 celebrities, including athletes, that measures brand and image recognition and affinity based on weekly consumer panels of 1,000 respondents.
A sports physiologist told me that the highest levels of lactic acid ever found in athletes — as measured in parts per million in the bloodstream — were found in the blood of oarsmen — about thirty parts per million.
There has been recent dramatic increase in the use of sensors affixed to the heads or helmets of athletes to measure the biomechanics of head impacts that lead to concussion.
My sense is that where men follow sport for role models, many women tend to read women's magazines instead; so instead of athletes, they measure their lives more against actresses, singers, models.
When the South African researcher Tim Noakes started his sports-science lab at the University of Cape Town, for instance, he and his colleagues began by bringing in athletes to measure their oxygen consumption because, Noakes recalled when I visited the lab several years ago, "in 1981, to be a sports scientist, you had to have a VO2-max machine".
