Footnotes

• Contributors PE identified the framework and wrote the text. DG identified the framework and produced the infographics, and PE and AM commented on the drafts. All the authors commented on drafts and contributed to the development of the final manuscript and assets.

• Funding This research has received no specific grant from any funding agency in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors.

• Competing interests No, there are no competing interests for any author.

• Patient consent for publication Not required.

• Ethics approval The injury and illness surveillance project (eg, data collection) was reviewed and approved by the Oslo University School of Medicine Ethical Committee (for athletics championships from 2009 to 2011) and by the Saint-Etienne University Hospital Ethical Committee (for athletics championships from 2012 to 2017), and the analysis of illnesses using all data was reviewed and approved by the Saint-Etienne University Hospital Ethical Committee.

• Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.

• Author note The infographics are based on the following article: Edouard P, Junge A, Sorg M, Timpka T, Branco P. Illnesses during 11 international athletics championships between 2009 and 2017: incidence, characteristics and sex- and discipline-specific differences.