injury Archives - Teaching Kids News Readable, teachable news. Sat, 11 Mar 2023 22:37:32 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 https://teachingkidsnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/cropped-TKN_square_blk-32x32.jpg injury Archives - Teaching Kids News 32 32 Canadian Athletes Working Through Injuries To Compete In Sochi https://teachingkidsnews.com/2014/02/06/2-canadian-athletes-working-injuries-compete-sochi/ Fri, 07 Feb 2014 02:36:58 +0000 https://teachingkidsnews.com/?p=12285 The 2014 Winter Olympics begin today in Sochi, Russa. Canadians will be cheering for their favourite athletes.

But several Olympic contenders are receiving a little more attention than others.

They are recovering from major injuries and needed to add extra training so they’ll be fit enough to compete.

At least two slopestyle contenders from Canada are among this group.

Slopestyle is an event in which skiers or snowboarders try to perform the most difficult tricks while flying as high into the air as possible.

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]]> Skiing, Snowboarding Cause Most Winter Sports Injuries In Canada https://teachingkidsnews.com/2012/01/30/skiing-snowboarding-cause-most-winter-sports-injuries-in-canada/ Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:10:45 +0000 https://teachingkidsnews.com/?p=5032 Last winter, more than 5,600 Canadians ended up in the hospital with an injury from hockey, skiing or another winter sport.

That information comes from a new report by the Canadian Institute for Health Information.

Most of the injuries were from skiing and snowboarding. More than 2,300 Canadians went to the hospital after they had an accident in either of those sports.

Hockey (1,114 injuries) and snowmobiling (1,126) were next on the list of injury-causing sports.

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