However, there is no doubt that the new regulation aims at granting "top-level" professionals temporary work permits, BMBF's spokesperson Ali Arslan told Next Wave.
Sandberg's message -- actually let's call it a social movement because that is exactly what it is -- is true for both mid-career women as well as top-level professionals.
In the past decade, measuring power output has become standard training procedure for many top-level professional cyclists.
Unlike other top-level professional sports leagues, Major League Baseball does not test for steroid use among its players.
The independently owned clubs operate as regional franchises, sanctioned to play in the top-level professional leagues.
At first, Armstrong had been barred from the race because of an International Cycling Union rule prohibiting top-level professional cycling teams from competing in national-level events.
"We've taken that idea from what Dave Brailsford and British Cycling do and put it into a top-level professional team," he said.
Woodhouse, it should be noted, was also a top-level professional footballer with no experience of boxing until the age of 26.
Hawaii has no top-level professional sports teams and limited college offerings beyond the University of Hawaii, so high school sports carry greater significance for many.
Kasparov, who is considered by some to have been the best player in chess history, retired from top-level professional play in 2005 to become a political activist.
Because whether we like it or not, when a top-level professional footballer does come out the attention on them will be huge.
