Dangerous Sports

[gollob]

What sport has more fatalities than any other

[Dustybun]

mountaineering? :o)

[geo0939]

Yachting according to AOL Search.

[geo0939]

Same page now says Motor Racing, take your pick.

[ageing fast]

I think the answer is FISHING. The reasoning is that fishing is the sport with the most participants. Most fatalities are from drowning or hypothermia. Other sports are more dangerous - but because proportionally less people participate there are proportionally less fatalities.

And I've found a site that agrees with me - extract below

http://www.gizmag.co.uk/go/3613/

The World's Most Dangerous Sport?

Several sports lay claim to being the most dangerous in the world. Rugby recently topped a newspaper opinion poll ahead of boxing, Formula One and hurling.

American bull riding is sold to the public on the basis of being the most dangerous sport in the world with five times more injuries than American football, six times more than wrestling, and 13 times more than ice hockey.

But fatalities are rare. There are sports where competitors have a much higher probability of dying. Sports like BASE Jumping, Free Diving, Cave Diving, Speed Skiing and Street Luging have fatalities, but participation is not that widespread and rock fishing claims more lives than all of them.

[Famous5]

It is fishing, but not because there are more people fishing and falling in etc, but because the fish are included in the death count