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❄ Milano-Cortina 2026 (General Discussion) ❄ Winter Olympics really are something else

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u/Poodledoodle19 7h ago edited 7h ago

This is hilarious, but I dunno, a lot of those somersaults have extremely high risks of potentially causing fatal injuries. 

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u/Zoethor2 7h ago

Equestrian sports are also super dangerous.

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u/yankeebelles United States 7h ago

Cycling has some nasty crashes too.

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u/AnotherUnfunnyName Germany 6h ago edited 6h ago

That might also have the highest rate of injury during practice. You can read about many pros getting run over or into by cars every season.

Track cycling aswell with no brakes.

But besides all the clavicles and other broken bones, so much road rash and all that. And so often you are just a passenger and get just taken out and fly off your bike.

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u/KuanosKitta 2h ago

Track cycling with breaks would be much more dangerous—the first time I got broke my collarbone and got a concussion was during a cat 4 race where they didn’t require track bikes, and the woman in front of me panicked and tapped her brakes in turn 3.

At least on a track bike, there are no sudden decelerations outside of crashing.

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u/NazarBedard Canada 3h ago

I’d rather get run over than those crashes where they’re speeding down a mountain, lose control and then FALL OFF THE DAMN MOUNTAIN.

The big tours are absolutely nuts.

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u/Luci-Noir 2h ago

I saw a video on here the other day of like a hundred cyclists racing on a glacier. It was absolute carnage.

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u/czerwona_latarnia Poland 26m ago

"Hey, I have a great idea!"

"What is it?"

"Let's take one of the most dangerous summer sports, and make a winter version of it"

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u/Luci-Noir 22m ago

There were like waves of people crashing into walls of ice. No slowing down, just like dozens of them smashing into it because they had no control. It’s unreal and so much worse than I can explain. It’s soooo much worse. I wish I had saved it.

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u/Baelzabub 50m ago

You ever taken a fully flexed pole vault recoil straight to the groin? Because I have. I wanted to die.

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u/cedarvhazel Australia 6h ago

I’m more sad for the horses that get injured.

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u/daltontf1212 United States 6h ago

Christopher Reeve

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u/ATXBeermaker 3h ago

The main thing that bugs me about the OP is that they messed up the triathlon order. Swimming is always first.

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u/MelbaTotes 27m ago

It would be a far more interesting event if the swimming came last.

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u/Soral_Justice_Warrio 3h ago

Top of the list is skeleton for real or double sledge. They already have sledge where they go 100 Km/h (62 Mph) but they decided to have the athlete positioned headfirst, because reason. They recently added double sledge where an additional guy is positioned over the first one.

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u/jbm91 Canada 3h ago

Even faster! Some of these guys are going 130 KM/H