date:Jul 23, 2012
to be fancy. For highly-trained athletes, nutrition is generally not a matter of pleasure, but of getting exactly the required amount of calories and nutrients needed for optimum performance.
The diets of top athletes tend to consist of simple and functional food - pasta features a lot. Olympic champions have often been rumoured to have special diets. For example, the Flying Finn, Paavo Nurmi, who between 1920-28 won nine gold medals for running, was said to be powered by raw fish and black b