Female Athletes Suffer Pain For Glory


	Female Athletes Suffer Pain For Glory
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7-12-2008 4:28 AM
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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/083d9678-9c82-454a-ae6d-a64ef1a717ef/BB7AAE09-1B22-4BFE-96EF-D114CA771302/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=92181946&ft=1&f=1007" href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=92181946&ft=1&f=1007" style="font-size: 11px;">www.npr.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=92181946&ft=1&f=1007"><H1>Female Athletes Suffer Pain For Glory</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=92181946&ft=1&f=1007"><P class="listentab"><A class="listen" href="javascript:NPR.Player.openPlayer(92181946, 92188500, null, NPR.Player.Action.PLAY_NOW, NPR.Player.Type.STORY, '0')">Listen Now</A> <SPAN class="duration">[15 min 17 sec]</SPAN> <A class="add" href="javascript:NPR.Player.openPlayer(92181946, 92188500, null, NPR.Player.Action.ADD_TO_PLAYLIST, NPR.Player.Type.STORY, '0')">add to playlist</A> </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=92181946&ft=1&f=1007"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.npr.org/img/27C28739-D28A-4CDA-A35B-DBFBAF92EC10" alt="Soccer phenom Daniela suffered an injury during the 2007 World Cup games." /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=92181946&ft=1&f=1007"><DIV class="credit">Peter Parks</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=92181946&ft=1&f=1007"><P class="caption">College-level female soccer players suffer concussions at the same rate as male football players. Brazilian national player Daniela Alves Lima was among a number of athletes injured in the 2007 Women's World Cup soccer tournament. <SPAN class="rightsnotice">AFP/Getty Images</SPAN></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=92181946&ft=1&f=1007"><P><SPAN class="program"><A href="http://www.npr.org/templates/rundowns/rundown.php?prgId=13" linkindex="33" set="yes">Fresh Air from WHYY</A>,</SPAN> <SPAN class="date">July 3, 2008 · </SPAN> According to Michael Sokolove's book <EM>Warrior Girls,</EM> female athletes are more vulnerable to injury than their male counterparts. The statistics are alarming: women are eight times more likely to damage their ACLs, or anterior cruciate ligaments, than men. 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