Applies to any risky sport that requires training from a young age. My personal guilty pleasure is motorcycle Gran Prix racing. Top level kids are racing professionally at 15 and all of them have titanium in their collarbones by the time they’re done.
Personally, I’d go further and say that Olympic athletic competition shouldn’t be international until age 25. Then training wouldn’t be only about besting, but also preserving yourself to that ripe old age to compete.
