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  1. Physiology Unit, Department of Systems Biology, School of Medicine, University of Alcalá, Ctra. Barcelona, Km 33,600, 28871, Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain

    Pedro L. Valenzuela & Pedro de la Villa

  2. Department of Sport and Health, Spanish Agency for Health Protection in Sport (AEPSAD), Madrid, Spain

    Pedro L. Valenzuela

  3. Universidad Europea de Madrid, Madrid, Spain

    Javier S. Morales & Alejandro Lucía

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Pedro L. Valenzuela is supported by a predoctoral contract granted by the University of Alcalá (FPI2016), and Javier S. Morales is supported by a predoctoral contract granted by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport (FPU14/03435). No specific sources of funding were used to assist in the preparation of this letter.

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Pedro L. Valenzuela, Javier S. Morales, Pedro de la Villa and Alejandro Lucía declare they have no conflicts of interest relevant to the content of this letter.

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Valenzuela, P.L., Morales, J.S., de la Villa, P. et al. Comment on: “Drinking Strategies: Planned Drinking versus Drinking to Thirst”. Sports Med 48, 2211–2213 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40279-018-0905-5

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