Snowboardcross dangerous: Study

About 25 per cent of the injuries were serious enough to result in athletes being unable to train or compete.

Published: September 07, 2010 5:02 a.m.

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Snowboardcross was the most hazardous sport at the Winter Olympics in Vancouver, with nearly 75 per cent of female athletes sustaining injuries during the rough-and-tumble races, according to a medical study.

The report, published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine, found that at least 11 per cent of all athletes at the games in February sustained injuries — including 20 concussions.

The study reported a total of 287 injuries among the 2,567 athletes, including the “catastrophic injury” that caused the death of Georgian luger Nodar Kumaritashvili in a training crash before the opening ceremony on Feb. 12.

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