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Infographic: Injury and illness, the 2016 Olympic Games
  1. Torbjørn Soligard1,
  2. Kathrin Steffen2,
  3. Debbie Palmer3,
  4. Juan Manuel Alonso4,
  5. Roald Bahr2,5,
  6. Alexandre Dias Lopes6,
  7. Jiri Dvorak7,8,
  8. Marie-Elaine Grant9,
  9. Willem Meeuwisse10,
  10. Margo Mountjoy11,
  11. Leonardo O P Costa12,
  12. Natalia Salmina13,
  13. Richard Budgett14,
  14. Lars Engebretsen15
  1. 1 Medical and Scientific Department, International Olympic Committee, Lausanne, Switzerland
  2. 2 Department of Sports Medicine, Norwegian School of Sports Sciences, Oslo Sports Trauma Research Center, Oslo, Norway
  3. 3 School of Applied Sciences, Edinburgh Napier University, Edinburgh, UK
  4. 4 Department of Sports Medicine, Aspetar, Qatar Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine Hospital, Doha, Qatar
  5. 5 Aspetar, Qatar Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine Hospital, Doha, Qatar
  6. 6 Department of Physical Therapy, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, Massachusetts, USA
  7. 7 Swiss Concussion Center, Zurich, Switzerland
  8. 8 Spine Unit, Schulthess Clinic, Zurich, Switzerland
  9. 9 Institute of Sport and Health, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland
  10. 10 Sport Injury Prevention Research Centre, Faculty of Kinesiology, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
  11. 11 McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
  12. 12 Masters and Doctoral Programs in Physical Therapy, Universidade Cidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
  13. 13 GE Healthcare, Moscow, Russian Federation
  14. 14 International Olympic Committee, Lausanne, Switzerland
  15. 15 Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Oslo University Hospital, Oslo, Norway
  1. Correspondence to Dr Torbjørn Soligard, Medical and Scientific Department, International Olympic Committee, Lausanne, Switzerland; torbjorn.soligard{at}olympic.org

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