Pan American Games 2019

[Olympian1010 7,971]

And now the first death of a Lima 2019 athlete (I believe). What a shit year this has been 

https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1094321/peru-wrestler-jannette-mallqui-peche

[heywoodu 15,135]

21 minutes ago, Olympian1010 said:

And now the first death of a Lima 2019 athlete (I believe). What a shit year this has been 

https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1094321/peru-wrestler-jannette-mallqui-peche

 

Says the internet every single year, again and again, because every year apparently people die and things happen  

 

Not to make this case any less sad, of course.

[Olympian1010 7,971]

9 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

 

Says the internet every single year, again and again, because every year apparently people die and things happen  

 

Not to make this case any less sad, of course.

The tone of this year has just been morbid though. It does also seem like we’ve seen more athlete deaths than normal, but that could be me noticing them more now. Last month we had 35 (or something) Olympians die. Already this month we had the suicide of an Olympian, the suicide of a Youth Olympian. and the suspicious death of a Pan American Games athlete. Not to mention the fucking pandemic that sent the international sports calendar to hell, postponed the Olympics, and left us without sport.

[heywoodu 15,135]

59 minutes ago, Olympian1010 said:

The tone of this year has just been morbid though. It does also seem like we’ve seen more athlete deaths than normal, but that could be me noticing them more now. Last month we had 35 (or something) Olympians die. Already this month we had the suicide of an Olympian, the suicide of a Youth Olympian. and the suspicious death of a Pan American Games athlete. Not to mention the fucking pandemic that sent the international sports calendar to hell, postponed the Olympics, and left us without sport.

 

And every year I'm hearing "Damn, so many famous people died this year, can't wait for the year to end  "

 

There's just more famous people nowadays, and so more famous people die. Which sucks, and is obviously sad for the people involved, but apart from a virus messing with stuff I don't think one year is much worse than the other on a global scale  

[Dragon 1,844]

22 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

 

And every year I'm hearing "Damn, so many famous people died this year, can't wait for the year to end  "

 

There's just more famous people nowadays, and so more famous people die. Which sucks, and is obviously sad for the people involved, but apart from a virus messing with stuff I don't think one year is much worse than the other on a global scale  

The worst year for deaths of Olympians in the last decade saw 524 deaths, last year saw the fewest deaths - 472

At the present rate we're on course for about 480 deaths this year.

[heywoodu 15,135]

43 minutes ago, Dragon said:

The worst year for deaths of Olympians in the last decade saw 524 deaths, last year saw the fewest deaths - 472

At the present rate we're on course for about 480 deaths this year.

 

I'm surprised how consistent that number is, considering 472 and 524 are the outer edges.