A headline like “The Most Dangerous Sports In The World” always catches my attention, so when I saw that in my RSS reader yesterday I clicked though to find yet another generic list of a dozen or so “extreme sports” with little or no real information about them.
Base jumping – check!
Cave diving – check!
Heli-Skiing – check!
Cheerleeding… wait, WTF?
Yes, according to ithing.com, cheerleading should be in anyone’s top ten list of danger sports, since “there are over 20,000 reported cheerleading injuries a year”.
Can you really compare a twisted ankle, or a broken wrist from cheerleading with a BASE accident? I think not.
Anyway, a little later in the day and I see virtually the same headline over at totalsportspro.com and decided to check it out as a comparison. This time the focus was very much on danger, as in liklihood of death or very serious injury, and needless to say that cheerleading didn’t make the list!
Anyway, for anyone interested there’s an infographic from the site below. Interesting to note that it’s obviously an American site, since the map of “Dangerous sports all over the place” shows only North America, even though the headline is “The World’s Most Dangerous Sports” but hey, they also have the World Series of Baseball and AFAIK only USA and Canada compete in that 
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