Re: "Danger! Danger!" - or not!

On 5/31/2025 4:08 PM, Roger Merriman wrote:

cyclintom <cyclintom@yahoo.com> wrote:

On Fri May 30 20:43:02 2025 Frank Krygowski  wrote:

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Zen is apparently the only one posting here who still races. He should
take comfort in the fact that they found racing to be safer than badminton!

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And you don't find those numbers peculiar? What injuries are sustained in
badmitten as opposed to riding down mountain passes in the rain at 50 mph?
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 Very few racers will be regularly riding down mountain passes, and to be
honest while the speed clearly makes any crash potentially serious, in my
experience they aren’t particularly dangerous, relatively good sight lines,
so on.
 Roger Merriman
 

Racers generally have more training and are more fit than your average backyard badminton player. It's not surprising that racing has better statistics in that comparison.  A valid comparison would be bike racers compared to competitive badminton players.