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Oceanic yacht racing is one of the most dangerous sports in the world. [1] It was particularly dangerous in the early days when oceanic racing was more like early mountain climbing in terms of sense of adventure and achievement. Modern safety and communication equipment has improved safety however like any sport in natural environment risk is ...
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 ...
Accra Sports Stadium disaster: Accra Sports Stadium, Accra, Ghana: 97: 15 April 1989 Hillsborough stadium crush: Sheffield, England 93: 12 March 1988 Hailstorm & Stadium crush: Kathmandu, Nepal [69] 84: 11 June 1955 1955 Le Mans disaster, motor racing accident Le Mans, France 83: 16 October 1996 Doroteo Guamuch Flores disaster, stadium crowd crush
The countries with the most homicides per unit population are generally countries with small populations (very narrow rectangles in chart, 2021). [1] The list of countries by homicide rate is derived from United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) data, and is expressed in number of deaths per 100,000 population per year. For example, a ...
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 ...
BMX racing was the most dangerous sport at Tokyo 2020, especially when taking injuries that last longer than a week into account. The sport was officially introduced on the Olympic stage in 2008 ...
World Chess Championship 1908: José Raúl Capablanca: Alexander Alekhine: 1927–c.1938: World Chess Championship 1927: Garry Kasparov: Deep Blue: 1996–1997: Deep Blue versus Garry Kasparov: Bobby Fischer: Boris Spassky: 1972- 1992: World Chess Championship 1972 Fischer–Spassky (1992 match) Viswanathan Anand: Vladimir Kramnik: 1989–present
Crashes are a real and unfortunate part of bike racing. And while bike racing is an inherently dangerous sport and one that has, since its inception, featured crashes, injuries, and sometimes ...