The incidence of injury and illness among athletes at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games was 8% and 5%, respectively, slightly lower than in previous recent Summer Games.
Overall, 8% of the athletes incurred at least one injury during the Olympic Games, and 5% an illness, which is slightly lower than in the Olympic Summer Games of 2008 and 2012.
Soligard et al. (Sat,) studied this question.
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