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contest. "She said to one of our supervisors that she was on her way home and her head was hurting her real bad," one of the woman's
co-workers would tell reporters. "She was crying and that was the last that anyone had heard from her."
Athletes endurance athletes, especially are also recognized as being at risk of water poisoning. Results from a study published in
2005 in the New England Journal of Medicinesuggest nearly one in six participants in 2002's Boston Marathon experienced some
degree of hyponatremia. A 2006 study published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine states unequivocally that "exercise associated
hyponatremia is due to overdrinking." In the article, sports physiologists Timothy David Noakes and Benjamin Speedy lament the
biomedical community's slowness to acknowledge the risks over over-hydration in endurance athletes.