I don't know what results they were going for. Of course the activity where you sit your ass on a foam seat attached to a metal frame would be more spinal cord injury prone. Hockey they are heavily padded and the hardest things your gonna hit is another person or the wall.
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You dont sit on the seat while going down a run...
Spinal cord injuries? From a sport that has you rocketing down steep hills over rough terrain with a metal framed bicycle with little to no actual suspension? Who woulda thunk it?? Jokes aside, I wonder how that compares to dirt bike / motocross guys.
Not to mention crashing at high speeds into trees and shit with only a helmet vs being completely covered with padding
Not claiming to have read the source that thoroughly, and there are parts of the analysis that I’m unfamiliar with; but you could get this outcome if there were more bikers than hockey players, even if biking was no more dangerous than hockey.
Yeah, without giving demographic information, the comparisons are worthless.
Curious how the numbers for people that do CC--where you have to actually pedal up hills--compare to those that do downhill or free-riding. The CC riding I used to do was all very slow, technical trails in the midwest; the limited riding i did in California was mostly bombing down fire roads.