70% of top UK swimmers and third of Team Sky cyclists suffer from some form of condition, particularly exercise-induced asthma It’s not unknown for elite sports people to bear asthma – Paula Radcliffe and Paul Scholes are among well-known British examples – but the good news for wheezy children wistfully dreaming of a sporting career is that research is increasingly uncovering just how many asthmatics there are in top-level sport.
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Source: theguardian.com