Cornell's chocolate milk fills refuelling gap
Locally produced drink has become recovery beverage for university athletes
Ithaca, New York
THROUGHOUT the school year, Cornell's strength and conditioning centre is filled with a chorus of clanging weights and thumping rock music.
Posters in the entrance to the centre instruct athletes - from 135kg offensive linemen to 1.52-metre-tall field hockey players - to refuel their bodies after sweat-inducing workouts.