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Tuesday, 11 September, 2012
Football wounds top all other sports injuries
What is the most dangerous sport—skiing, mountain biking or football? More than 300,000 sports injuries occurred in Switzerland with most of them, being related to football. According to data from the Swiss Council for the Prevention of Accidents, nearly 58,000 are football injuries, 17,000 more than skiing and 25,000 more than cycling. WRS’s Alex Helmick speaks to Dr. Boris Gojanovic, head of the Swiss Olympic Medical Center, about this odd statistic:
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Swiss forward Blaise Nkufo suffers from a knee injury during a football match between Switzerland and Moldova at the Stade de Geneve stadium in Geneva. (KEYSTONE/Dominic Favre)
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