Before the 2008 Games in Beijing, the committee issued a memo to athletes stating: "According to the Olympic Charter, the peak of the Olympic Movement's action is 'the bringing together of the world's athletes at the great sports festival, the Olympic Games'.
It was not until May 2004, however, that the IOC introduced a policy for transsexual and transgender athletes, stating that they must have legal recognition in their country, hormone therapy to "minimise gender-related advantages" and proof of at least two years of living in their "newly assigned gender" after SRS.
"We are not an alpine nation but I am very excited by the performances that we have seen this past season from our winter athletes," stated Hay.
Thirdly, athletes stated their duration of napping by selecting one of five choices: 30 min or less, 31 to 60 min, 61 to 90 min, more than 90 min, and depends on case.
Firstly, the athletes stated their frequency of napping by selecting one of five choices: no napping habits, less than once per week, 1 2 times per week, 3 5 times per week, and almost every day.
In the second question, athletes stated their timing of starting to nap by selecting one of nine choices: before noon, eight time bands of every 1 hour from 12 00 to 19 00, and depends on case.
One of the male athletes stated that having a bad gut could largely impact the general experience of physical health and wellbeing.
An extrapolation of the whole body vibration effects measured off-season to in-season can potentially lead to misleading conclusions because the composition of training and athletes' states differ vastly at these two time points.
One of the female athletes stated her self-related health as follows: "being able to move and walk outside, do whatever you want to do, to wake up and feel 'oh how nice that it's a new day' and you want to do things and you have a positive view of life-that is health to me".
