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2025.
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Female para-athlete study finds distinct regional body-composition patterns
A matched comparison examines why broader athlete reference groups may miss relevant variation.
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Table-tennis trial examines balance training through movement tests
An eight-week comparison measures agility and changes of direction, with match outcomes still outside the study.
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Murphy and Trump advance on German Masters opening day
Murphy won without losing a frame, while defending champion Trump recovered from an early deficit in Berlin.
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Australian Open 2025 sets attendance records across Opening Week and main draw
Melbourne Park recorded 1,218,831 visits across the three-week Australian Open programme, including new highs for Opening Week and the main draw.
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Siniakova and Townsend withstand comeback to win Australian Open doubles title
The top seeds beat Hsieh Su-wei and Jelena Ostapenko 6-2, 6-7(4), 6-3 in the women's doubles final, giving Townsend her second major and Siniakova her tenth.
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Milan’s women recover twice to beat Roma and reach the fifth-place mark
Milan won 3–2 on 25 January after trailing twice, moving level on 22 points with Como in the contest for the final Championship Round place.
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Gukesh joins Tata Steel leaders as Caruana draws in round seven
Gukesh beat Harikrishna while Abdusattorov and Praggnanandhaa drew, creating a three-way tie on five points in Wijk aan Zee.
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Edwards and Obst take Bayern past ALBA in the EuroLeague derby
Bayern won 99–84 in Berlin on 24 January, with Edwards scoring 34 points and Obst making six of seven three-point attempts.
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Foot-pressure study finds no simple link between toe contact and athletics performance
A Japanese collegiate sample shows why a standing foot measure should not be treated as a universal performance target.
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Aydoğdu’s late winner takes Samsunspor to 40 points
Soner Aydoğdu came off the bench to decide a 2–1 home win over Gaziantep on 24 January after the visitors had equalised early in the second half.
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Munich wins in Berlin on Don Jackson’s return to the bench
Red Bull Munich won 3–2 after a shootout on 23 January, when Berlin honoured its former title-winning coach before his first game back in charge of Munich.
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Markerless gait study finds repeatability varies across movement measures
A small laboratory study separates repeated measurements from wider clinical validation.
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Handball study finds athlete stress reports and blood markers tell overlapping stories
A season-long observational study cautions against treating questionnaires and hormones as identical monitoring tools.
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Climber finger-injury series reports return to sport while training time falls
A case series distinguishes resuming climbing from restoring every aspect of participation.
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Nys and Van Empel win close Benidorm World Cup races
Nys attacked on the final lap, while Van Empel secured a third consecutive Benidorm victory on 19 January.
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Small Para powerlifting study compares short-term recovery measures
Eleven male athletes completed a crossover comparison, with force tests and blood markers assessed over a short follow-up.
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Gukesh beats Giri as three players share Tata Steel’s opening lead
The world champion joined Harikrishna and Keymer on one point after the first Masters round in Wijk aan Zee.
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Al-Rajhi and Sanders claim first Dakar titles as Saudi rally reaches Shubaytah
Yazeed Al-Rajhi became the first Saudi car winner, while Australian Daniel Sanders led the motorcycle standings throughout the January rally.
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Knee-imaging study tests a classifier in a small external patient group
An imaging-model evaluation concerns adults with knee pain rather than a screened athlete population.
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Raducanu overturns second-set deficit to reach Australian Open third round
The British former US Open champion recovered from 0-3 in the second set to beat Amanda Anisimova 6-3, 7-5 and reach the last 32 in Melbourne for the first time.
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Shelton holds off Carreno Busta comeback to reach Australian Open third round
The American won 6-3, 6-3, 6-7(4), 6-4 against the returning Spaniard and secured a place in Melbourne's last 32 for the third consecutive year.
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Independent athlete survey tests the limits of a supplement-behaviour screener
The S3 study assessed reported use of independently tested products, rather than testing the products themselves.
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Wheelchair rugby study compares activity limits across impairment groups
Standardised tasks provide evidence for a classification question affecting inclusion.
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Raducanu wins two tiebreaks to beat Alexandrova in Australian Open first round
Emma Raducanu opened her 2025 season with a 7-6(4), 7-6(2) victory over 26th seed Ekaterina Alexandrova at Melbourne Park.
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