As an athlete, one of the most devastating occurrences is not a loss at a game or even a championship, it is an injury. An injury can cut short a season, be a career ender, or in the most extreme situation, end a life.
We know that sports always involve a physical risk because of contact, speed of play, environment or conditions, and infrequently — intentional malice.
There are the light scratches and bumps and bruises but also concussions, fractured bones, torn ligaments and more. When one joins sport of any kind, there is the understanding that they accept the risk of injury.
I have four children who are athletes and there isn't a week where someone doesn't need Voltaren, some KT tape or the packet of frozen peas we keep in the freezer as a de facto ice bag.