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Quebecers are increasingly going to extremes - sports, that is - to get their adrenalin fix…

"Our world is so much more stressful now," Gordon Bloom said. "People worry about financial meltdowns, terrorism, war, cyber-bullying. They just want to get away and so they look for different ways to escape and release that stress."

Bloom is an associate professor of sports psychology at º«¹úÂãÎè and is lab director and head coach at º«¹úÂãÎè's Sport Psychology Research Laboratory. "We're hearing more about the importance of physical activity now, and, at the same time, the definition of traditional sports is shifting," Bloom said.