Serum androgen levels are positively correlated with athletic performance and competition results in elite female athletes

We thank our colleagues for their constructive comments that relate to our two articles in the July 2017 issue of BJSM .1 2 The main criticisms expressed about the data used and our statistical analysis were (1) our ‘concentration’ on free testosterone (fT) rather than total testosterone (T)3 (presumably because the T results were only presented in the Internet version of the paper), (2) the fact that 17.3% of the athletes were sampled at both...