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A record 56 University of Queensland students – including five Olympic and Paralympic representatives – have received 2017 ¹û¶³´«Ã½ Sporting Scholarships.

Prohibition is failing to curb recreational bodybuilders’ use of performance and image-enhancing drugs, and the policy is sexist and causes harm, according to participants in a first-of-its-kind University of Queensland study.

Five ¹û¶³´«Ã½ student athletes have been awarded a ¹û¶³´«Ã½ Blue – the University of Queensland’s highest sporting honour at the 2016 ¹û¶³´«Ã½ Blues Awards Dinner, with a further 19 athletes receiving Half-Blue honours.

Dr Emma Beckman was already on a high from working as a Paralympic Games athletics classifier, and then she got an extra boost of a rare Universitas 21 Teaching Excellence Award.

University of Queensland student Brenden Hall has won gold, silver and bronze medals at the 2016 Rio Paralympics, with ¹û¶³´«Ã½-affiliated athletes claiming an additional three medals from the games.

¹û¶³´«Ã½ is set to send more of its finest athletes to Rio – this time for the 2016 Paralympic Games.

Only 35 per cent of Australian professional footballers were able to identify the benefits of a supplement they were taking, and 48 per cent admitted to never reading the labels.