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POSITION STATEMENT

Coping with jet-lag: A Position Statement for the European College of Sport Science

Thomas Reilly Research Institute for Sport and Exercise Sciences, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, UKCorrespondence[email protected]
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Greg Atkinson Research Institute for Sport and Exercise Sciences, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, UK
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Ben Edwards Research Institute for Sport and Exercise Sciences, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, UK
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Jim Waterhouse Research Institute for Sport and Exercise Sciences, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, UK
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Torbjörn Åkerstedt Department of Public Health Sciences, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden
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Damien Davenne Centre de Recherches en Activités Physiques et Sportives, University of Caen, Caen, France
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Björn Lemmer Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Ruprecht-Karls-Universiteit Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany
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Anna Wirz-Justice Centre for Chronobiology, Psychiatric University Clinics, Basel, Switzerland
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Pages 1-7 | Published online: 27 Apr 2007

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