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With things like running, rowing, and weightlifting you aren't at a significant risk of brain injury though. I would much rather have damaged joints than a dama
by GhostVII 6y ago
With things like running, rowing, and weightlifting you aren't at a significant risk of brain injury though. I would much rather have damaged joints than a damaged brain. And for these sledding athletes, it sounds like this damage is constant and inevitable even if you do everything perfectly, rather than a result of accidents like with sports like snowboarding and skiing.
- qppo 6y agoInjury risk can be counterintuitive, like how synchronized swimmers pretty much universally suffer from concussions [0] https://www.npr.org/sections/thetorch/2016/08/16/490074935/the-dangerous-side-of-synchronized-swimming-concussions https://www.npr.org/sections/thetorch/2016/08/16/490074935/t...
- burger_moon 6y agoWeight cutting is pretty bad for your body, and they take it to extreme levels of drying out their bodies too, so any of these sports which have weight classes (all the weight lifting, wrestling) are pretty damaging to all organs in the body and have caused death before. Not advocating to stop these in Olympics, pointing out there's non-obvious risks athletes take beside head trauma.