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There’s a long history of athletes pooing themselves mid-race – why, and how can you avoid it?

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Since the ancient Olympics, athletes like Hyrox competitor Joanna Wietrzyk have experienced runner’s diarrhoea. What does the science say about extreme exercise’s ‘mechanical jostling of the intestines’?

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