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To sum up the matter with a play on words, we could speak of “champion sleep”. The relationship between sleep and sport is a topic that is increasingly investigated at a scientific level, so much so that by inserting the terms “sleep” and “athletes” on Web of Sciencethe indexing system of academic citations, more than a thousand results come out and more than 80% of the documents on the subject have been published in the last 10 years.