I get that they are a dedicated sportsman. But why suffer a permanent injury when you could just recover over a few months and come back next olympics? Seems a bit of an overreaction to me!
this post was submitted on 31 Jul 2024
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My dad had part of a finger mangled pretty bad. Couple operations and a skin graft went into saving it. Function never came back. He can only bend it part way. Amputation would have been a shorter recovery with the same level of function.
He's 30 and it's not a guarantee he can be in the next one
Next Olympics is 4 years and a lot could happen before then. And they have been training and working themselves up for this Olympics. I get it.
Henrik Sedin an NHL player did something similar
https://www.hockeyforum.com/threads/henrik-sedin-loses-finger-tip-to-injury.30124/
Onion-y headline.
Why? It sums up thearticle perfectly and it's true. Here's bbc with the same https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckmg7ngkgjeo