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Canada Soccer drone spying scandal: In July 2024, staff from the Canadian Soccer Association were discovered to be using drone surveillance to spy on a training session for the New Zealand women's national football team at the 2024 Summer Olympics. Palestinian sports organizations and sports organizations from Arab countries have called for ...
At the Summer Olympics, high-speed and high-contact sports are the most dangerous. BMX racing was the most dangerous sport at Tokyo 2020, especially when taking injuries that last longer than a ...
Overall, 8% of Olympians suffered injuries in 2016, but the rate was far higher for some sports, like BMX and boxing. Shooting is one of the safest. The Olympic sports with the highest risk of ...
Women's ice hockey was reported as one of the most dangerous sports in the NCAA, with a concussion rate of 2.72 per 1,000 player hours. Even though men's ice hockey allows body checking, while women's ice hockey does not, the rate of concussions for men is 46% lower, at 1.47 per 1,000 player hours.
Various concerns and controversies arose in relation to the 2024 Summer Olympics held in Paris including security, [1] human rights issues, Israel's participation amidst the Israel–Hamas war, and allowing Russian and Belarusian athletes to compete as neutrals amidst the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Hang gliding is actually one of the most dangerous in-air sports possible. According to HSE, a U.K.-based watchdog group, the risk of death in a hang-gliding accident is 1 out of every 116,000 ...
Several Japanese business executives and employees were arrested between August and October 2022 on suspicion of bribery.Former Tokyo 2020 Olympics and Paralympics executive board member Haruyuki Takahashi was arrested on four separate occasions within that period of time after allegedly receiving money from several businesses in exchange for facilitating Olympic sponsorship contracts.
A lot of sports are pretty dangerous, such as auto-racing, MMA or playing for any team in Oakland. But after last week's scary shark attack in South Africa, we can all agree that surfing has ...