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@poddster wrote:

 here is an interesting study  now tell me again that my chosen sport is dangerous

 

http://www.nisu.flinders.edu.au/pubs/reports/2007/injcat103.pdf

 

 

 

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More people participate therefore more people vbecome injured

More people participate in Australian Football in Australia than in any other football code. A total of 539,526 registered participants played football in 2005, up from 516,043 in 2004 - a 4.6 per cent rise.

Going into the second-leg of Australia ’s World Cup Qualifier against Uruguay, Soccer maintains its position as Australia ’s most popular team sport. Soccer was played regularly or occasionally by almost 1.1 million Australians during the 12 month period from July 2004 to June 2005 which is 7% of the population aged 14 and above.

In 2008, a total of 423,584 Australians participated in rugby league

In 2005 about 350 000 australians participated in rugby union

http://www.golfclubmanagement.net/2011/09/aeds-saving-golfers-lives/

Your sport is much more dangerous than football could ever be

Another US study two years ago found that over 3,000 golfers die on American courses every year due to cardiac arrests, with the third and 18th holes proving to be the deadliest locations.

An internet search for ‘golf club’ and ‘heart attack’ in the UK shows the problem is not confined to one country. Ruthin-Pwllglas GC in Wales, for example, has seen two members die on the course in recent years; the club captain of Sundridge Park GC in Kent suffered a fatal attack on his course this summer; the KP Club in York and Nazeing GC in Essex have both also experienced deaths recently. So what can be done?