Olympians Go for Gold, Get a Few Extra Years

Olympians Go for Gold, Get a Few Extra Years By Kristina Fiore, Staff Writer, MedPage Today Published: December 14, 2012 Olympic athletes appear to live longer than the general population -- but only by a few years, researchers found. In a retrospective study, Olympic medalists lived an average of 2.8 years longer than controls, David Studdert, ScD, MPH, of the University of Melbourne in Australia, and colleagues reported online in BMJ... From the study "Finally, we excluded 1542 participants born after 1910, as they could possibly be still alive." The skeptic in me says "Rich people have always lived longer" and the rules to excluded non-upper-class people (i.e. non amateurs) were strong in the Olympic tradition. Not a whole lot of the Olympians from the 1936 games are still around -I'm guessing that olympics would have leaned a bit towards post 1910 births

Olympians Go for Gold, Get a Few Extra Years By Kristina Fiore, Staff Writer, MedPage Today Published: December 14, 2012 Olympic athletes appear to live longer than the general population -- but only by a few years, researchers found. In a retrospective study, Olympic medalists lived an average of 2.8 years longer than controls, David Studdert, ScD, MPH, of the University of Melbourne in Australia, and colleagues reported online in BMJ... From the study "Finally, we excluded 1542 participants born after 1910, as they could possibly be still alive." The skeptic in me says "Rich people have always lived longer" and the rules to excluded non-upper-class people (i.e. non amateurs) were strong in the Olympic tradition. Not a whole lot of the Olympians from the 1936 games are still around -I'm guessing that olympics would have leaned a bit towards post 1910 births