1. Three-time Olympic ski jump champion Thomas Morgenstern of Austria will somehow compete in the Sochi Olympics despite this horrific crash just one month ago.
2. Lindsey Vonn crashed so badly at the World Championships that she needed to be airlifted off the course, needed surgery on her knee, and ultimately was unable to compete in the Olympics.
3. One day after Shaun White was criticized for pulling out of the slopestyle competition, Norwegian snowboarder Kjersti Buaas crashed headfirst on the same course.
4. Three-time Olympic champion Marianne Timmer of the Netherlands suffered several broken bones in this speed skating collision and couldn't compete in the 2010 Vancouver Olympics.
5. Nodar Kumaritashvili of Georgia passed away at the 2010 Winter Olympics when his luge sled crashed going 90 mph. He was one of four athletes who have been killed during Winter Olympics.
6. While we tend to think of downhill as the dangerous version of skiing, Johan Brolenius of Sweden was left bloodied in 2006 after competing in the slalom.
7. German figure skaters Ingo Steuer and Mandy Woetzel suffered many injuries in their careers including six knee surgeries for him, multiple concussions for her, and a nasty spill that cut their routine short in 1994.
8. The danger isn't a new consequence of modern day speeds. In 1936 two Italians were injured when their bobsled catapulted out of the track.
9. Bobsleds no longer eject from the track, but they do occasionally flip over while traveling at high speeds.
10. And there's hockey, an extreme-contact sport.
11. How many other competitions have athletes that have to avoid stray, possibly angry, dogs?
12. Finally, there is the biathlon, which is cross country skiing...WITH GUNS.
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