Comments on: These kids are ticking time bombs https://www.isegoria.net/2019/07/these-kids-are-ticking-time-bombs/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Thu, 28 May 2026 23:08:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Lu An Li https://www.isegoria.net/2019/07/these-kids-are-ticking-time-bombs/comment-page-1/#comment-2944822 Lu An Li Sun, 21 Jul 2019 15:04:55 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=45402#comment-2944822 Those itty bitty girl gymnasts above all. Bodies still growing the whole time and practicing as they do with injuries that they are told to ignore and keep going. It would be interesting to see what sorts of ailments they suffer from as they age.

]]> By: AM826 https://www.isegoria.net/2019/07/these-kids-are-ticking-time-bombs/comment-page-1/#comment-2944814 AM826 Sun, 21 Jul 2019 14:06:31 +0000 https://www.isegoria.net/?p=45402#comment-2944814 “There, players who played more than four matches — often at least one per day over a span of four consecutive days — were more than twice as likely to pull out of the tournament before their fifth match for medical reasons than those who didn’t advance that far.”

In fact, player still in a tournament are infinitely more likely to pull out of a tournament than players that had already been eliminated. Because the eliminated ones are already not playing the next match and therefore can’t pull out.

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