Word: weighting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...racer who looked comfortable was France's Franck Piccard, who had never won a World Cup race although he had looked good earlier in the Games, taking a bronze in the downhill. His expression as the other racers failed seemed to ask, "What do I do now?" Carry the weight of a gold medal was the answer: he was France's first ski hero in several thin years...
...indeed. Weekend skiers could see the astonishing downward and outward force that his thighs exerted in turns, just as he shifted weight from ski to ski. La Bomba calls himself the "greatest" and resembles a pair of young lovers holding hands, except that there is just one of him. It is impossible to take offense. The new phenom announced happily that his rich father would buy him a Ferrari for his win, and no one seemed to mind...
Frisch also concluded that some women athletes, who have lost a significant amount of body weight due to strenuous exercise, experience menstrual dysfunction and may become temporarily infertile...
...hypothalamus normally sends out a [hormone] signal that puts the reproductive system on 'go,'" Frisch says. If body weight is too low, the brain will not send any hormonal signals to the reproductive organs, and menstruation will not occur, she says. Once exercise is cut back and weight is regained, the menstrual cycle and ovulation will be restored, and pregnancy will be possible. "The situation is not irreversible," she says...
Frisch has determined that if a woman weighs 10 to 15 percent below her normal weight, her reproductive cycle will be turned off. Doctors have even created a "fatness index," indicating the minimum amount a woman must weigh to be fertile. Women who become infertile can refer to this index to discover the weight they need to regain fertility, assuming nothing else is wrong, Frisch says...