Perhaps you're mistaken? The results discussed in the article claim the opposite, and point out: "Their first conclusion was that athletes are lousy at identif

Perhaps you're mistaken? The results discussed in the article claim the opposite, and point out: "Their first conclusion was that athletes are lousy at identifying whether and why they are sniffling. The original 1980s studies had relied on runners’ self-reports of illness. But newer experiments that actually tested saliva showed that less than a third of marathon runners who thought they had caught a cold actually had. Statistically, their odds of becoming sick were about the same as for anyone else in the race’s host city. The athletes probably had misinterpreted allergies or short-term scratchiness in their airways after the race as a cold, says John Campbell, a professor at the University of Bath who was a co-author of the new review."