I once went swimming right after I ate. This dude’s got nothing on me.
I get that they are a dedicated sportsman. But why suffer a permanent injury when you could just recover over a few months and come back next olympics? Seems a bit of an overreaction to me!
My dad had part of a finger mangled pretty bad. Couple operations and a skin graft went into saving it. Function never came back. He can only bend it part way. Amputation would have been a shorter recovery with the same level of function.
He’s 30 and it’s not a guarantee he can be in the next one
Next Olympics is 4 years and a lot could happen before then. And they have been training and working themselves up for this Olympics. I get it.
Henrik Sedin an NHL player did something similar
https://www.hockeyforum.com/threads/henrik-sedin-loses-finger-tip-to-injury.30124/
Onion-y headline.
