"half of athletes" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when you want to refer to a group of athletes that is split into two equal parts. For example: "Half of athletes on the team are returning players, while the other half are fresh faces."
More than half of athletes presented with dental caries (55.1%) of which 41% was into dentine, that is, irreversible.
Despite these limitations, it appears that approximately half of athletes in certain sports when asked about their career to date reported an experience of mouth or face injury.
Although athletes in LM group can return to sports earlier than those in MM group, more than half of athletes have pain or effusion in the knee at the time of return-to sport.
Although athletes in LM group can return to sports earlier than those in MM group, more than half of athletes have pain or effusion at the time of return-to sport.
28 Little is known about these factors in elite sport although awareness of risk of oral disease appears low 13 and less than half of athletes in one sample attended for regular oral health assessments.
Consequently "Some athletes smoke" implicates "Not all athletes smoke" but not "Not more than half of all athletes smoke".
Approximately half of the athletes (47.9 %) were volleyball players, followed by soccer players (12.5 %), track-and-field athletes (10.4 %), runners (6.9 %), figure skating/artistic gymnastics/competitive dancing athletes (6.2 %), basketball players (5.6 %), martial arts athletes (3.5 %), swimmers (2.1 %), skiers (2.1 %), cyclists (1.4 %), and weight lifters (1.4 %).
Half of the athletes screened had eye problems.
All of this happened the same week that a study was released showing that half of college athletes surveyed – half!
He said studies show that more than half of professional athletes have guns, often because they need protection.
Fifty-five percent of younger people surveyed said at least half of pro athletes use steroids, compared with 40percentt of older respondents.
