At risk of being labelled pedantic, I wish to address one minor point in your recent P & P-- the comment that some women "never experience the pain of childbirth ... by using epidural analgesia." During childbirth an epidural is given very late in the process, only after dilation and effacement of the cervix to a considerable point. To get to this point requires several hours (up to 24 hr in some women) of various stages of labour, none of which are painfree. The pain escalates with time, and the epidural usually blocks pain (which is indeed exceptional) only at the very late stages of labour.*** MY COMMENT
Perhaps the relevance of childbirth to sport is that, upon seeing and holding her newborn, a mother immediately forgets the many hours of pain, for the end result is more than worth the pain.*** MY COMMENT
Perhaps champions in sport also experience such "forgetfulness" upon the dais, thus enabling them to return to training through the pain and further improvment in performance.***MY COMMENT
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