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Athletes both professional and amateur are all striving for the best— from the gear they wear to equipment and training methods to help get the edge. This is the case in every sport. But some times it is the simplest ideas that are the most beneficial to help boost performance.

Athlete's foot — also known as ringworm of the foot and tinea pedis — is a fungal infection of the skin that causes scaling, flaking, cracking, and itching of affected areas.

A company based in IT Sligo’s Innovation Centre which provides an applied bio marker (Blood and Saliva) testing service for elite athletes around the world, has signed a contract with the Irish Institute of Sport. ORRECO will work with the cream of Ireland’s high performance athletes, including many who are bound for London 2012.

Olive Loughnane of Loughrea AC placed an impressive eighth in the Women’s 20km Race at the IAAF World Cup of Race Walking in Saransk, Russia, on Sunday.

A promising young Claregalway athlete has become the first person to set a 100m record at the Olympic Stadium in London.

Salt therapy can dramatically enhance sports performance which can help improve lung function and is believed to increase lung capacity and stamina. If you want to improve your sports performance, visit Mayo’s first salt therapy spa at Diamond’s Car Park, Ballina.

Human+Kind has created an all-in-one family skin saviour, Human+Kind all in one family remedy cream.

St Mary’s opened in 1912 with 60 boarders and 17 day boys. The first school sports there took place in 1928, and since then the college has produced many fine athletes in track and field. The first mention of All-Ireland sports in the annals of the school concerns Tom Fahy, who in 1938 set a new Irish record for the 12lb shot. In 1939 the school won its first Connacht Schools title; in 1943, it won three titles, four in 1946, and five in 1947. In that last year, one athlete, Martin Kilmartin, won three golds, and set records in both the triple jump and the long jump. In 1948 the college again won five titles, and in 1950 John Linnane set a new Irish record in the pole vault.

Laura Shaughnessy of Loughrea AC ran the race of her life to win the National Intermediate Women’s Cross Country in tough conditions in Boyle County Roscommon on Sunday.

Galway-based company Pure Athlete, which specialise in body care recovery and performance products is planning to create up to 20 new jobs within their sales and distribution divisions.