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Cheerleading proves more dangerous than all other girls' sports combined

By Kevin Spak,  Newser Staff

Posted Aug 12, 2008 12:45 PM CDT

(Newser) – Cheerleading accounts for more catastrophic injuries than every other girls’ sport combined, LiveScience reports. Of the 103 fatal, debilitating, or serious injuries female high school athletes incurred between 1982 and 2007, 67 occurred while cheerleading. Participants in the next-most-dangerous activity, gymnastics, sustained just nine such...   Read full story »

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