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More than one in ten athletes injured in Winter Olympics
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A new study has reported that at least 11% of of athletes taking part in the 2010 Winter Olympics were injured. The incidence of injuries varied considerably between sports, with the risk of sustaining an injury being highest for bobsleigh, ice hockey, short track, alpine freestyle and snowboard cross....See: http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/09/08/one-in-10-athletes-injured-during-2010-winter-olympics-study/

Citation: Engebretsen L et al. Sports injuries and illnesses during the Winter Olympic Games 2010. Br J Sports Med 2010;44:772-780
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And how many more had to pull out of the event before hand due to injury and illness too I wonder?

I also wonder how those stats compare to summer Olympic events?
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?

Interesting that Bobsleigh is high risk while Luge is rated low risk.
Ok, higher speeds are involved, but they are both sliding sports, so surely must have similar risks.
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Richard_Sideways, i think the death of an athlete in the days before the olympics started may have skewed the stats.
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Actually it didn't. The guy killed was a luger and including his accident, less than 1 in 20 lugers required medical attention through injury or illness, one of the lowest levels for events in the games... Think this article is possibly saying more about using a somewhat spurious statistics to show 'risk' than anything about the sports involved.

Lies, damn lies and statictics and all that.
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