What Are the Most Dangerous Sports at the Summer Olympics?

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What 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, we’ve already seen a highlight reel of awful injuries. We’ve seen a busted weightlifter, two major cycling wrecks, and a gymnast’s 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 doesn’t 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?