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. 2020 Feb 11;54(3):281–293. doi: 10.1007/s43465-020-00049-y

Table 1.

Event and sportwise knee injuries published on Winter Olympics

2010 WOa 2012 YWOb 2014 WOc 2016 YWOd 2018 WOe
Bob—bob Knee = 1/314 (0.32%) graphic file with name 43465_2020_49_Figa_HTML.gif
Bob—skeleton
Bob—luge
Curling Knee = 0/100 (0%) Knee = 0/64 (0%) Knee = 2/64 (3.13%)
Ice hockey Knee = 7/444 (2.23%) Knee = 0/199 (0%) Knee = 4/466 (1.27%) Knee = 1/199 (0.5%)
Skating—figure Knee = 5/432 (1.59%) Knee = 3/153 (0.96%)
Skating—short track
Skating—speed
Alpine and snowboarding—Alpine

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Knee = 24/665 (7.64%)

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Knee = 11/222 (3.5%)

Knee = 17/580 (5.41%) Knee = 14/317 (4.46%)
Alpine and snowboarding—freestyle—cross
Alpine and snowboarding—freestyle—aerial
Alpine and snowboarding—freestyle—moguls
Alpine and snowboarding—snowboard—cross
Alpine and snowboarding—snowboard—Halfpipe
Alpine and snowboarding—snowboard—Slalom
Ice track sports Knee = 1/134 (0.32%) Knee = 1/166 (0.6%)
Nordic skiing—Biathlon Knee = 2/615 (0.64%) Knee = 0/243 (0%) graphic file with name 43465_2020_49_Figd_HTML.gif Knee = 1/246 (0.41%)
Nordic skiing—cross country
Nordic skiing—ski jumping
Nordic skiing—combined
Overall among all athletes Knee = 39/2567 (1.52%) Knee = 15/1015 (1.48%) Knee = 26/2780 (0.94%) Knee = 19/1131 (6.05%) Knee = 53/5914 (0.9%)
Incidence among all injuries 13.59% of all injuries 13.51% of all injuries 5.88% of all injuries 17.6% of all injuries 14.1% of all injuries

WO Winter Olympics, YWO Youth Winter Olympics

aEngebretsen et al. [5]: Vancouver WO

bRuedl et al. [6]: Innsbruck YWO

cSoligard et al. [7]: Sochi WO

dSteffen et al. [8]: Lillehammer YWO

eSoligard et al. [9]: PyeongChang WO