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- Year
- 2009
- Type
- review
- Volume
- 39
- Issue
- 10
- Pages
- 857-888
- Citations
- 299
- Access
- Closed
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Panteleimon Ekkekakis
(2009).
Let Them Roam Free?.
Sports Medicine
, 39
(10)
, 857-888.
https://doi.org/10.2165/11315210-000000000-00000
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- DOI
- 10.2165/11315210-000000000-00000