Olympic pentathlete Stephanie Cook
					Steph has been taking one heaped teaspoon of Green Magic in a glass of water morning and night since October 1999 after Olympic fencing coach John Llewellyn, who is himself an ex-Olympic fencer, suggested she might like to try it. The results have been impressive. "Since I have been taking Green Magic I have noticed that my recovery after training has been much improved. This means that I can manage the intensity of the training every day," she says. It was only in 1994 at university that Steph started doing the pentathlon, although she says that she grew up in a family which had horses and was keen on running. "But I was only riding at Pony Club level then. The modern pentathlon is a very demanding sport and consequently the training has been very intensive, often up to eight hours a day." Steph won her place in the UK Olympic team by winning the World Cup Olympic Qualifying Championships in Mexico City in March 2000. Since then, in preparation for the games, she has competed successfully in a number of competitions, including winning the individual silver medal at the European Championships in Hungary in July. She was also a member of the gold-medal winning relay at the same event. At the World Championships in Italy in June, she also won two silver medals. As well as being a high-flyer in the athletics world, she has also jumped over hoops in the outside world. A qualified doctor, she did her pre-clinical training at Cambridge University and post-graduate training at Oxford University. Following this, she went on to do vascular surgical research at		the Royal Surrey County Hospital in Guildford. New Spirit Naturals Inc, which produces Green Magic, was formed nearly 20 years ago by Dr Larry Milam HMD (Homeopathic Medical Doctor) and his wife Debbie, who has an MA in Nutrition Medicine and is a highly-trained expert in skincare and cosmetics.Dr Milam has a degree in homeopathy and is a member of the University of Natural Medicine, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Dr James Zhou PhD is head of New Spirit Naturals' Scientific Advisory Team.Dr Zhou's qualifications include an Msc in plant genetics from Guangxi and Bejiing, China, and a doctorate in genetics and bio-chemistry from Iowa State University, US. He has also worked as a research scientist at Yale University School of Medicine and is currently researching Chinese herbal medicine. Steph says: "I like the fact that the formula has been developed by doctors and that you know what has gone into the product. The ingredients are 100% natural. This is crucial for anybody but particularly athletes." The men's modern pentathlon takes place on Saturday, September 30, the day before the women's modern pentathlon competition. Everyone at New Spirit Naturals wishes Steph and her colleagues the best of luck for the Olympics.
	While the world watches the Sydney 2000 Olympics with baited breath, one athlete who takes a New Spirit Naturals product will actually be taking part. Twenty-eight-year-old Stephanie Cook is a member of the Great Britain Olympic team and will be battling it out with her colleague Kate Allenby on the final day of the Games, Sunday October 1, in the women's modern pentathlon. It is the first time that this competition has been included in the Games for women. As a test of endurance, strength and stamina, the event is unrivalled. Competitors have a 12-hour day to look forward to, with five events taking place in just one day. It starts with the shooting competition early in the morning where competitors have to shoot 20 shots from a .177 air pistol over a 10-metre range. This is followed by Epée fencing where competitors fence with every other person in the competition, aiming for any area of the body from mask to foot in one minute. Then it's into the pool for a 200-metre freestyle competition followed by a round of show jumping on an unknown horse over four-foot fences. The grand finale is a 3,000-metre run. It's obviously not a competition for the faint-hearted. Steph Cook, who is single and in full-time training with the modern pentathlon national squad at Bath University, agrees: "There is some time to rest between events but not a great deal. It usually goes on for 12 hours." But some help is available.