This column features short items about sport research in progress or in print, highlights of recent or upcoming conferences, hot topics on mailing lists, and anything else of interest to the sport-science community.
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Items will be edited and bounced back to you for approval. Apparently they were exercising in rubber suits to sweat off enough weight to get themselves into a lighter weight class. Heat and dehydration were probably the factors responsible for the deaths. Muscle fibers damaged by heat release potassium ions into the blood. The kidneys normally help remove the potassium, but with dehydration, blood stops passing through the kidneys.