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The latest news about Ana!-Olympics previewAugust 09, 2008 /

Injury update: Ana reacted well to osteopathic treatment on Saturday. The strength has been restored in her right thumb and much of the pain has been alleviated. A decision as to her participation will be made after practice on Sunday. Her first round match against Mariya Koryttseva is scheduled to take place on Monday.
The Olympic Tennis Event begins in Beijing on Sunday. Provided she is fit, Ana will continue her hard court season in the Chinese capital before heading to the U.S. Open, which begins eight days after the Tennis Event finals.

Ana is excited about the prospect of competing in her first Olympics. “The Olympics is something all athletes, not only tennis players, dream of playing,” she said in an interview several months ago. “It’s a great honour to have the opportunity to represent my country there.”

A total of 64 athletes are scheduled to compete, including eight of the world’s top 10 players; the only top 10-ranked players not appearing in Beijing are the Russians Anna Chakvetadze and Maria Sharapova. Chakvetadze chose not to play while Sharapova is injured.

The venue of the Olympic Tennis Event will be the brand new Olympic Green, where several other Olympic sports are also taking place. It is located in the area that includes the National Aquatic Centre, affectionately known as the Water Cube, and the National Stadium, which is often referred to as The Bird’s Nest, where the athletics will be held.

A new challenge for the participating athletes could be the poor air quality in the city: according to a 2004 World Bank survey, Beijing is the 13th most polluted city in the world. However, much has been done to alleviate the smog, including shutting down factories in the months leading up to the Games.

On some days, the city remains under smoggy conditions and athletes complain about the air quality, which could inhibit their performances – some are reportedly wearing masks during their stay in Beijing. On other days the “PM10″ readings – the scientific gauge of air quality – are no worse than most major cities across the globe.

In advance of the last Grand Slam of the year, the same hard court surface, known as DecoTurf II, and the official U.S. Open tournament ball will be used in Beijing.

As well as the medals, the Olympic Tennis Event carries ranking points for the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour. Points will be awarded as follows:

Gold Medal – 353pts
Silver Medal - 245 pts
Bronze Medal - 175pts
4th Place - 135pts
Quarter-finals - 90pts
Third Round - 48pts
Second Round - 28pts
First Round - 1pt

By Yannic Glowitz

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Ever wonder why men find curvaceous women more attractive? Well, that’s because women with a curvy figure are brighter and give birth to brainier kids, according to a new study.
Scientists at the Universities of Pittsburgh and California, Santa Barbara, found that women with large hips and small waists are cleverer than those with either “apple-shaped” or linear bodies.
The study, to be published in the journal Evolution and Human Behaviour, also discovered that curvaceous women give birth to more intelligent children because hip fat contains polyunsaturated fatty acids critical for the development of the fetus’s brain.
The researchers believe that the results shed light on why many men find curvy women more alluring.
For the research, the team used data from a study of 16,000 women and girls, which collected details of their body measurements and their scores in cognitive tests.
They found that those women with a greater difference between the waist and hips scored considerably higher on the tests, as did their children.
The researchers say that the ideal ratio for an intelligent curvy woman lies between 0.6 and 0.7.
They suggest that the fat around fuller hips and thighs contains higher levels of omega3 fatty acids which are essential for the growth of the brain during pregnancy.
Although these theories anticipate confirmation, Paula Hall, a sexual and relationship psychologist with Relate, said: “Having research that proves you can be sexy and intelligent is really positive. It shows that curvy women may be better at things other than raising children and doing cooking and housework.”
The team said that their findings may also explain why children born to teenage mothers do worse in cognitive tests - because their mothers may have had deficient stores of the best fatty acids.
“The cognitive development of their children is reduced, and their own cognitive development is impaired compared with those mothers with a later first birth,” Times Online quoted the researchers, as saying.
The study noted, however, that children born to teenage girls with traditional hourglass figures seemed to be protected from this phenomenon and fared better in tests.
Several scientific studies have shown that men are “hard-wired” to find women with a greater waist-hip differential the most attractive. However, no one has yet been able to elucidate this, although theories include better fertility, better childbearing abilities and longer life expectancy.
Dr Harry Witchel, a senior lecturer in physiology at the Brighton and Sussex Medical School and a body language expert on the television programme Big Brother, said: “Until this point the only thing we have accepted is that they [curvy women] are at an advantage in contemporary western society. What these people are saying is that they also have an advantage biologically.”
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