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Warren J Bradley1, Marcus P Hannon1, Victoria Benford1

  • 1Research Institute for Sport and Exercise Sciences, Liverpool John Moores University, UK.

Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport
|February 28, 2017
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CarbohydrateContactMetabolismNutritionPhysiologyTeam-sport

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