Injury and Illness Surveillance Among Olympic Athletes: Summary of the 2010 Winter, and the 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympic Games

 

Beijing 2008

London 2012

Vancouver 2010

Participating athletes

10,977

10,568

2,567

Injuries (per 1,000 athletes)

1,055 (96.1)

1,361 (128.8)

287 (111.8)

Most common diagnosis

Ankle sprains (7 %), thigh strains (7 %)

Most severe injuries: shoulder, elbow, and knee dislocations, muscle strains and ruptures, fractures/stress fractures, ligament sprains and ruptures, incl ACL, tendon ruptures

Concussions (7 %)

Most affected locations

Trunk (13 %), thigh (13 %), head/neck (12 %), knee (12 %)

Head/neck (16 %), knee (14 %), thigh (7 %)

Most common mechanisms

Non-contact (20 %)

Contact with another athlete (14 %)

Contact with another athlete (15 %)

Overuse (22 %)

Non-contact (20 %)

Contact with a stationary object (22 %)

Contact with another athletes (33 %)

Overuse (25 %)

Non-contact (23 %)

Expected time-loss injuries

50 %

35 %

23 %a

Competition – training injuries

73–27 %

55–45 %

46–54 %

High risk sports (injuries per 100 athletes)

Football, taekwondo, field Hockey, handball, weightlifting

Football, taekwondo, BMX, handball, MTB, athletics

Snowboard cross, freestyle aerials and cross, bobsleigh, ice hockey

Low risk sports (injuries per 100 athletes)

Canoeing/kayaking, diving, rowing, sailing, synchronized swimming, fencing

Archery, canoe slalom and sprint, track cycling, rowing, shooting, equestrian

Nordic skiing disciplines, curling, speed skating


aThis figure may underestimating the number of time-loss injuries as the response rate to this information was low and many of the injuries were of severe outcome, without estimated time-loss registered (more details in the Vancouver paper) (Engebretsen et al. 2010)



The incidence of injuries varied substantially among the different sports in all three Games (Table 3.2). The risk of sustaining an injury was highest for football (soccer), taekwondo, BMX and MTB cycling, field hockey, handball, weightlifting, and boxing (all ≥15 % of the athletes) (Junge et al. 2009; Engebretsen et al. 2013). In Vancouver, injury risk was highest for bobsleigh, ice hockey, short track, alpine, and for freestyle and snowboard cross (15–35 % of registered athletes were affected in each sport) (Engebretsen et al. 2010).


Table 3.2
Injury and illness distribution (percentage of participating athletes) for selected sports on the program for the 2008 Beijing, 2010 Vancouver, and 2012 London Olympic Games















































































































































































































































































































































































Olympic sports
Injuries
Illnesses

Beijing 2008
Vancouver 2010
London 2012
Vancouver 2010
London 2012

Alpine skiing
  
14.9
  
4.2
  

Aquatics

 Diving
2.1
  
8.1
  
5.1

 Swimming
3.4
  
5.4
  
7.3

 Synchronized swimming
1.9
  
13.5
  
12.5

 Water polo
9.7
  
13.1
    

Archery
7.0
  
1.6
  
7.8

Athletics
11.3
  
17.7
  
10.5

Badminton
4.7
  
15.9
  
3.0

Baseball
11.1
  
–
    

Basketball
13.2
  
11.1
  
3.1

Beach volleyball
8.3
  
12.5
  
18.8

Biathlon
  
1.5
  
11.4
  

Bobsleigh
  
20.0
  
4.4
  

Boxing
14.9
  
9.2
  
6.4

Canoeing/kayaking
1.2
  
5.2
  
10.4

Cross country skiing
  
3.1
  
6.8
  

Curling
  
4.0
  
10.0
  

Cycling
5.8
        

 BMX
    
31.3
  
4.2

 MTB
    
21.1
  
6.6

 Road
    
9.0
  
3.3

 Track
    
3.0
  
19.6

Equestrian
5.2
  
4.5
  
5.5

Fencing
2.4
  
9.3
  
5.3

Field hockey
20.4
  
17.0
  
7.5

Figure skating
  
14.3
12.3
    

Football
31.5
  
35.2
  
12.2

Freestyle

 Aerials
  
19.1
  
2.1
  

 Cross
  
19.0
  
2.9
  

 Moguls
  
1.8
  
0
  

Gymnastics
7.5
        

 Artistic
    
7.7
  
2.6

 Rhythmic
    
7.3
  
1.0

 Trampoline
    
6.3
  
3.1

Handball
17.4
  
21.8
  
4.9

Ice hockey
  
18.5
  
5.6
  

Judo
11.2
  
12.3
  
4.2

Luge
  
1.9
  
6.5
  

Modern pentathlon
5.6
  
8.3
  
1.4

Nordic combined
  
1.9
  
7.8
  

Rowing
1.8
  
3.3
  
7.3

Sailing
0.8
  
14.7
  
10.0

Shooting
7.8
  
3.8
  
4.4

Short track
  
9.0
  
9.2
  

Skeleton
  
6.4
  
10.6
  

Ski jumping
  
4.5
  
1.5
  

Snowboard

 Cross
  
35.0
  
10.5
  

 Half pipe
  
13.0
  
5.8
  

 Slalom
  
6.8

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