article_snippet.sent: Great Britain's Mo Farah is pictured above running to victory in the European Athletics Championships in Helsinki, Finland .
article_snippet.sent: Professor Robert Deaner, a psychologist at Grand Valley State University in Michigan, said Professor Robert Deaner, a psychologist at Grand Valley State University in Michigan studied elite runners because it is a sport that is equally popular among men and women and there is no disparity in prize money.
article_snippet.sent: Professor Robert Deaner, a psychologist at Grand Valley State University in Michigan said: 'Of course, we need to be careful not to assume that we running results will generalise to all sports or all domains outside of sports. '
article_snippet.sent: The researchers, whose study is published in the journal PeerJ, assessed the competitiveness of 1,147 long distance runners competing in the 5,000 metres in the US National Collegiate Athletic Association.
article_snippet.sent: The researchers, whose study is published in the journal PeerJ surveyed each runners motivation for participating, The researchers, whose study is published in the journal PeerJ training volume and The researchers, whose study is published in the journal
article_snippet.sent: PeerJ desire to compete at an elite level after college.
highlights_snippet.sent: Scientists at Grand Valley State University, Michigan, studied elite runners .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Scientists at Grand Valley State University