Sportscience 17, 1-12, 2013 SPORTSCIENCE · sportsci.org News & Comment / Training & Performance Effects Went Away at the 2013 Annual Meeting of the European College of Sport Science Will G Hopkins Sportscience 17, 1-12, 2013 (sportsci.org/2013/ECSS.htm) Sport Performance Research Institute NZ, AUT University, Auckland 0627, New Zealand; Email. Reviewer: Martin Buchheit, Physiology Unit, Aspire Academy for Sports Excellence, Doha, Qatar. This highly successful conference was noteworthy for its venue, logistics, and research wow factor, including unexpected failure or harm with nitrate supple- mentation, carbohydrate mouth rinse, and even regular exercise. Accessing Abstracts and Videos: links to all abstracts, to poster PDFs, and to videos of the plenary sessions. Non-Athletic Populations: genes predict positive and negative responders to exercise; conference session summary and search strategies. Acute Effects: re-warmup; post-activation potentiation; ischemic preconditioning; cycling position; recovery; titanium-impregnated garments; stretching; shoes; timeouts. Injury: reaction time as a risk factor; prevention strategies. Nutrition: status of carbohydrate train-low compete high; antioxi- dants and the hormesis hypothesis; acute effects of tart cherry juice, NAC, green tea, nitrate, carbohydrate, caffeine, paracetamol; longer-term effects of beta-alanine, oral contraceptives. Performance Analysis: environmental effects, triathlon, basketball, rugby, soccer, speed skating, swimming. Tests, Technolo- gy and Monitoring: transcriptomics; instrumentation for rowing and kayaking; tribometer for frictional drag of skis and clothing; ski-snow interaction; heart- rate variability. Talent Identification and Development: spending money; sport for all; assessing nations; genotyping; selection criteria in skiing, soccer, triath- lon. Training: psychomotor optimization; contextual interference in tennis; dif- ferential learning in badminton; deliberate play vs practice in soccer; sensory- perceptive exercises in swimming; error feedback in golf; skill-retention with video games; video for volleyball; structured for basketball; medicine balls for handball; reducing interference of strength and endurance; resistance for water polo; strength for cycling, soccer, rugby; core for swimming; individualized for cycling; HIT in soccer; vascular occlusion and hypoxia for team sports; intermit- tent hypoxia for AFL football; high-high-low altitude for swimming. Reviewer's Comments: issues with e-poster format and quality of topics, slides, and speakers. KEYWORDS: competition, elite athletes, ergogenic aids, nutrition, performance, talent identification, tests, training. Reprint pdf · Reprint docx Update Aug 23. The list of all the winners and finalists of the Young Investigator Awards is now available here. Update Aug 6. A sport-nutritionist colleague, Andrea Braakhuis, has pointed out that beet- root juice contains phytochemicals that could contribute to the effect of the nitrate it con- tains. Perhaps, but the "decline effect" and the level of training of the subjects can explain any differences between the published effects of nitrate and beetroot juice containing nitrate, and I still think it is inadvisable to prescribe beet- root juice or nitrate to highly trained endurance athletes for competitions until there is more evidence not only about mean effects but also about individual responses in such athletes. Update July 24. ECSS has now made the post- er PDFs available via the search form at the Scientific Program page. As explained below, this search form will stop working in Septem- ber, after which you will have to be a member of ECSS to search for abstracts and PDFs from this and previous conferences. Join ECSS via the membership page. Once again ECSS turned on a winning annual conference, this year at the monumental venue