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  • Canadian women expect physical challenge from Iceland in soccer friendly in Spain

    Canadian women expect physical challenge from Iceland in soccer friendly in Spain

    Interim coach Cindy Tye is expecting a stiff challenge Friday when the sixth-ranked Canadians take on No. 13 Iceland in an international women’s soccer friendly in Spain.

    Iceland posted a 4-1-1 record in qualifying for the 2025 UEFA Women’s Championship, finishing runner-up to fourth-ranked Germany in a group that also featured No. 17 Austria and No. 32 Poland. That included a 3-0 win over the visiting Germans which marked the first time Germany has been beaten by three goals in a competitive game since Brazil in the 2008 Olympic semifinals.

    “They’re a physical team, a fast team,” Tye said Thursday from Spain. “At times (they) can be very direct so we’re going to have to be able to match that physicality. And when we get a chance to get on the ball, settle the game and — in opportunities when we can be in transition — take advantage.

    “It’s going to be a tough match, let’s say. They’re a team that’s hard to play so, for us, we’re going to have to show our quality when we’re on the ball.”

    After Iceland, the Canadians face No. 19 South Korea on Tuesday, also at the Pinatar Arena in Murcia.

    Tye, who coaches the Canadian under-20 women, is in charge for the November friendlies while Canada Soccer searches for a permanent head coach.

    The governing body has said head coach Bev Priestman will not be returning in the wake of the recent independent report into the Olympic drone-spying scandal. Priestman, assistant coach Jasmine Mander and analyst Joey Lombardi are currently serving one-year suspensions from FIFA, with Lombardi having already resigned his Canada Soccer position.

    Tye has said she is not interested in the Canadian coaching job on a permanent basis, given her U20 role and full-time job as associate athletic director and women’s head coach at Dalhousie University in Halifax.

    Canada is missing a handful of veterans in Spain.

    Kadeisha Buchanan, Sydney Collins, Cloe Lacasse, Evelyne Viens and Quinn are out injured. Canada Soccer said Seattle Reign forward Jordyn Huitema was unavailable due to personal reasons.

    But there is young talent in North Carolina State University defender Janet Okeke and SMU forward Nyah Rose, who received their first senior call-ups.

    Okeke, an 18-year-old from Laval, Que., and Rose, a 19-year-old from Markham, Ont., both represented Canada at the FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup in September in Colombia. Jade Rose, Nyah’s older sister, has already won 26 senior caps but the 21-year-old Harvard University defender misses the Spain trip through injury.

    There is also a second call-up for 18-year-old midfielder Jeneva Hernandez Gray from the Vancouver Whitecaps FC Girls elite team.

    “The philosophy for us is to give (them) some opportunity for sure so we’ll see a couple of different looks from the group over the two games in terms of the young players,” said Tye. “We’ll see how the games go and hopefully they do get an opportunity.”

    Canada has played Iceland twice before, both at the Algarve Cup, with the teams playing to a scoreless draw in February 2019 and Canada winning 1-0 in March 2016.

    The Canadian women are 7-1-1 all-time against South Korea, unbeaten in their last five meetings. The teams drew 0-0 last time they met, in June 2022 in Toronto.

    The FIFA window marks Canada’s final camp of the year, with North American-based players entering their off-season and European-based players returning to club competition.

    The Canadian women go into the game with an 8-0-6 record this year, with three of those draws turning into penalty shootout losses to Germany (in the Paris Olympics quarterfinal) and the top-ranked United States (in the SheBelieves Cup final and the CONCACAF W Gold Cup semifinal).

    Another draw produced a shootout win over Brazil (in the SheBelieves Cup semifinal).

    Tye’s staff in Spain includes incumbents Neil Wood (assistant coach) and Jen Herst (goalkeeper and set play coach) as well as Katie Collar (interim assistant coach) and Maryse Bard-Martel (interim performance analyst).

    Canada Soccer said assistant coach Andy Spence, who ran the team during the Olympics and last month’s 1-1 draw with third-ranked Spain, was “unavailable for this camp and is scheduled to return for the next FIFA window.”

    Collar, head coach of Vancouver Whitecaps FC Girls Elite, was also part of the staff for the game against Spain.

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    This report by The Canadian Press was first published Nov. 28, 2024.

    Neil Davidson, The Canadian Press

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  • Unhealthy Diets, Physical Inactivity Fuelling Obesity In India: Former WHO Chief Scientist

    Unhealthy Diets, Physical Inactivity Fuelling Obesity In India: Former WHO Chief Scientist

    Unhealthy diets and physical inactivity are the main reasons for rising abdominal obesity in India, said Soumya Swaminathan, former WHO Chief Scientist. Swaminathan, who is currently the Principal Advisor for the Health Ministry’s tuberculosis programme called for expanding access to healthier diets and spaces for exercise in the country to fight against obesity, which is already a global health concern. Obesity is a known precursor to diabetes, hypertension, and cancer — the non-communicable diseases rising significantly both in India and worldwide.

    “Abdominal obesity – unhealthy diets and physical inactivity are driving this unhealthy trend,” Swaminathan said in a post on X. “More awareness, nutrition literacy, expanded access to healthier diets, spaces for exercise needed,” she added, citing a recent study on abdominal obesity, published in the journal The Lancet Regional Health. The study led by researchers from IIHMR University in Jaipur and Johns Hopkins University’s Bloomberg School of Public Health in the US, is based on data from the National Family Health Survey (NFHS-5) conducted in 2019-21.

    The results showed that abdominal obesity is more prevalent among women (40 per cent) than men (12 per cent). About 5-6 out of 10 women between the ages of 30 and 49 are abdominally obese. The association of abdominal obesity in women is stronger in elderly women and non-vegetarians. While abdominal obesity is more prevalent among people living in urban areas, the study showed that it is also on the rise in rural areas and is penetrating lower and middle socioeconomic sections of society.

    In India, BMI has conventionally been used to measure obesity. For the first time, the NFHS-5 assessed abdominal obesity through the waist circumference of 6,59,156 women and 85,976 men (aged between 15 and 49 years). The study thus found that some women with healthy BMI also have abdominal obesity. Kerala (65.4 per cent), Tamil Nadu (57.9 per cent), Punjab (62.5 per cent), and Delhi (59 per cent) showed a high prevalence of abdominal obesity, while Jharkhand (23.9 per cent) and Madhya Pradesh (24.9 per cent) had lower prevalence.

    Besides indicating an “emerging health risk for Indian women”, the study also showed “a double burden of malnutrition” in the country. The researchers urged the government to take proactive steps “to design targeted interventions for the groups who have high abdominal obesity, particularly for the women in their thirties and forties”.

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  • Mail Sport Extreme: Powerlifting has taken Nelson to physical and mental highs she could never have envisioned

    Mail Sport Extreme: Powerlifting has taken Nelson to physical and mental highs she could never have envisioned

    Not all who wander are lost and, for Annie Nelson, powerlifting led her back to herself.

    The 27-year-old, based in Edinburgh, admits that she has struggled with depression and anxiety in the past and if she hadn’t discovered powerlifting, she would not be the woman she is today.

    Nelson has only been lifting competitively for around six years but is already recognised as one of the best in the world.

    She has represented Great Britain on a number of occasions and came third in her weight division at last year’s European Open Classic Powerlifting Championships in Estonia before finishing fifth at the IPF World Classic Powerlifting Championships in Lithuania in June.

    Having started in athletics, Nelson reveals she fell out of love with the sport after five years of training between the ages of 16 and 21. However, the struggles started before she stepped away from track and field.

    ‘I was actually struggling with depression and anxiety to the point where my training wasn’t making me feel better when I was 19 or 20,’ she says. ‘That made me look at things and think it wasn’t for me, that there might be something else I would enjoy more. So I made the decision to step away from athletics.

    Nelson gets ready to lift at the IPF World Championship in Druskinikai, Lithuania

    Nelson gets ready to lift at the IPF World Championship in Druskinikai, Lithuania

    A support team watches carefully as Nelson prepares for another massive lift

    A support team watches carefully as Nelson prepares for another massive lift

    Nelson reflects on the scale of her achievement after pushing herself to her limit in Lithuania

    Nelson reflects on the scale of her achievement after pushing herself to her limit in Lithuania

    ‘I always loved the odd strength and conditioning session we did for that so I thought: “Why don’t I do that all the time?” Just lift weights all the time and just do that. I love feeling strong, so I found a coach, went from there and I’ve never looked back.

    ‘In terms of lifting, it has been great for my mental health. Powerlifting has taught me that I’m strong mentally as well. Obviously it teaches you how to be strong physically, but it also teaches you a lot of resilience, and a lot of my team-mates would agree with that.

    ‘It teaches you how to come back from things and that really gave me a focus, especially because I enjoyed it so much and never treated it just as a hobby. I knew I wanted to compete straight away and went head first into it all.

    ‘So that pushed me to keep going, pour all of my energy into it and training was my escape.

    ‘I always think that failing something gives you another opportunity to come back, to go and prove to yourself that you’re stronger than you were before.

    ‘It may sound cheesy but it relates so closely to your personal life as well. So it’s like: “If I can come back and be stronger, keep working away on myself, I don’t know where I can go”. I always transfer that over to regular life as well in that I can always come back from hard things and I’ll come back better.’

    A contemplative Nelson takes a time out before preparing for her next challenge

    A contemplative Nelson takes a time out before preparing for her next challenge

    Though Nelson has only been powerlifting for six years, already she has received a number of messages from young women thanking her for inspiring them and teaching them that it is OK for girls to lift weights.

    Whilst she never set out with the intention to be a light for those to follow, Nelson has not shone away from the opportunity to encourage more women to eat the foods they want to and lift weights.

    ‘It’s hard for me to wrap my head around that I’ve inspired some girls to get into powerlifting,’ she admits. ‘When I read stuff like that, I get a lump in my throat, especially when it’s a younger female because I know that I could have done with an older female strength athlete, role model, to look at. I was just living in my own little bubble.

    ‘To think that there are young girls out there that look at me, decide to get into powerlifting and get themselves really strong in what you’d call a male-dominated sport is incredible and I’m really touched that people feel like that.

    ‘The lifting community is still growing, especially on the female side of things, which is absolutely amazing. There are more and more girls getting involved and I’m the biggest advocate for that.

    ‘In Scottish powerlifting, the ratio between men and women in the sport is slowly evening out. It’s so important that young girls have the confidence to go and lift weights. I’m 27 now and when I was younger, I was growing up in the size-zero culture.

    Nelson and a friend find cause for celebrations in between the rigours of events

    Nelson and a friend find cause for celebrations in between the rigours of events

    ‘I remember a quote that was something like: “nothing tastes as good as how being skinny feels” and all these things stick with you.

    ‘Doing something like this teaches you to eat to actually fuel your body and it’s healthy to put on a bit of weight at times and go to the gym and make yourself really strong. You don’t have to be skinny and not eat — you can fuel yourself, go to the gym and be strong just like the men do.’

    Being part of the community and lifting alongside men is another reason why Nelson continues to partake in her sport.

    Earlier this year, she deadlifted over three times her bodyweight in front of none other than the World’s Strongest Man, Tom Stoltman.

    Having initially struggled with the national limelight, once Nelson took time to process the shock and reflect on what she had achieved, things became normal.

    Nelson admits she's bowled over to be considered an icon for many young people in the sport

    Nelson admits she’s bowled over to be considered an icon for many young people in the sport

    ‘Lifting in front of Tom Stoltman was amazing,’ she admits. ‘I got invited to the Arnold Sports Festival. He was on the stand with me and it was amazing to deadlift next to him with him cheering me on. I didn’t even plan to go that heavy, we just did it on the day and it was incredible.

    ‘I had no idea I’d get to the level I’m at. When I got my first call-up for GB, I had a lot of imposter syndrome and that it was maybe a fluke that I’d got there, that I’d done well at selections competition because other people maybe didn’t show up how I thought they would. It took me a while to realise that but the truth was that I deserved to be there and I earned my spot.

    ‘I’ve had quite a few GB showings now and I’ve appreciated and loved every single one.’

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  • Mental health in youth sports just as important as physical

    Maryland head football coach Mike Locksley became a staunch advocate for athletes’ mental health after the 2017 death of his son, who was diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder and posthumously with CTE. This is Part 2 of a two-part series on mental health in youth sports, knowing the warning signs and how to help. Read Part 1 here.

    Maryland Terrapins head coach Mike Locksley waits to take the field before the game against the Auburn Tigers at Nissan Stadium. He's a staunch advocate for athletes' mental health after the 2017 death of his son, who was diagnosed with schizoaffective disorder and posthumously with CTE.

    Mike Locksley coached college football at both Illinois and New Mexico from 2005 to 2011. His son, Meiko, was a star high school quarterback in both states.

    Meiko signed to play at Youngstown State in Ohio, where he started to change.

    He stopped going to class and started having uncharacteristic discipline issues. As he moved from school to school, he lost weight, began hallucinating and seemed to lack the ability to understand conversations. He also sustained a concussion while playing at New Mexico, not his first head injury over the years playing football.

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