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http://motherboard.vice.com/read/soccer-taekwondo-top-the-list-of-most-dangerous-events-at-the-summer-olympicsWhat Are the Most Dangerous Sports at the Summer Olympics?
Written by IAN BIRNBAUM
August 12, 2016 // 01:13 PM EST
One week into the 2016 Olympics, weve already seen a highlight reel of awful injuries. Weve seen a busted weightlifter, two major cycling wrecks, and a gymnasts shin broken cleanly in half. The same morbid fascination that draws eyes to car wrecks keeps us reading about and watching the injuries online, even if broadcast cameras cut away.
Only the gnarliest of injuries get media attention, but the actual rates of injury for Olympic sports vary widely between individual events and the summer and winter games. Softball is more dangerous than judo, amazingly, and ski jumping is safer than baseball.
Most Olympic injuries are minor, and come in the form of the constant aches, pains, and strains that athletes treat and ignore with an endless list of pseudoscientific cures. According to a meta-study from the British Journal of Sports Medicine, the most vulnerable body part in the Olympics is the knee. Between a fifth and a third of all competing soccer players, snowboarders, skiers, and hockey players (both field and ice) will injure their knees during each Olympics.
The type and range of movements competitors use makes a big difference in their potential for injury. The luge is a horrifying fast descent through a rock-hard ice tunnel, but as long as a luger doesnt crash, they stay safe. Badminton puts competitors through a ton of diving, twisting, and torquing, making it a bit more dangerous despite the warm connotations of childhood backyard games.
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http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/leg-head-injuries-frequent-at-olympics/
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Badminton is more dangerous than luge?
JonathanRackham
(1,604 posts)matt819
(10,749 posts)Equestrian eventing is one of the most dangerous sports.
TexasProgresive
(12,158 posts)While there may be more injuries in badminton than luge, when things go bad in luge it can be fatal, whereas badminton injuries are usually not.
I found 2 lugers who died in competition:
Nodar Kumaritashvili, 21, Georgia Luge 2010 Winter Olympic Games, Vancouver
Kazimierz Kay-Skrzypecki, Britian Luge 1964 Winter Olympic Games, Innsbruck
StrictlyRockers
(3,855 posts)I don't think that's ever happened. I think those things are designed to be non-lethal. (Even though they reach speeds of up to 200 miles per hour.)
TexasProgresive
(12,158 posts)When I was in Air Force Tech school there would be regular volley ball games. In the 9 months I was in training there were 2 broke ankles, multiple sprains to knees and ankles and one cracked patella. This leaves out the bruises, finger jams and bloody noses. No deaths but lots of injuries. These numbers are for my squadron not the whole base.
I was safe as I avoided the whole PT thing as just too damned dangerous.
StrictlyRockers
(3,855 posts)I just saw a golden opportunity to use the phrase, "death by shuttlecock".
and I could not resist...
TexasProgresive
(12,158 posts)jberryhill
(62,444 posts)On a really fast volley, if the player misjudges, the front end of the shuttlecock goes into their mouth, lodges in the trachea, and the feathers dig into the sides, preventing removal.
After the tragic deaths of four finalists in London, Olympic badminton arenas have been required to keep an emergency stab tracheotomy kit and trained technician near the net at all times.
In one day of competition four players and three spectators lost their lives (although one of them had accidentally walked into the charcoal grill while choking on the shuttlecock and succumbed to burning).
StrictlyRockers
(3,855 posts)Still laughing. That was gold.
Johonny
(20,888 posts)as soon as the stretcher hits the ground they mysteriously are cured by the hand of God and rush back onto the pitch 90% of the time. It's a miracle!
johnp3907
(3,732 posts)....for the person sitting next to Hope Solo.
VWolf
(3,944 posts)StrictlyRockers
(3,855 posts)Bleach!
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)In Olympic competition, instead of hand signals, they use actual rocks and scissors. To complete the round, the athletes have to run 500 meters WITH the scissors.
Baclava
(12,047 posts)Richie Porte in Rio hospital, Olympics ruined after breaking scapula in road crash
http://www.smh.com.au/sport/olympics/rio-2016/olympics-cycling/richie-porte-crashes-out-of-mens-road-race-at-rio-olympics-20160806-gqmq2c.html