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Topic: sports-science

American sprinter Allyson Felix, who returned to competition after a difficult pregnancy (file photograph)
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Friday, 7/3, 12:38 AM

The mothers rewriting what a comeback looks like in elite sport

  • Once, having a baby was widely assumed to mark the end of a top athlete's career.
  • A generation of champions — and a slow shift in the rules that govern professional sport — has turned that assumption on its head, even as the science of returning from childbirth, and the support around it, remains a work in progress.

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