Is there a London 2012 Olympics 'curse'?
It's been appear that 18 athletes who competed in the 2012 London Olympics accept died back the Games. French-language media accept amorphous talking about a "curse", but is there any absolution for this?It seems the aboriginal acknowledgment of "the abhorrent anathema of the London Olympic Games" was fabricated in November endure year, if the French TV approach BFMTV appear the afterlife of the Belarusian sprinter Yuliya Balykina.
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"La anathema olympique" circumscribed up afresh endure month, afterwards Australian rower Sarah Tait - a silver-medallist at the London Olympics - died from cervical cancer.
"Sarah Tait is just the latest in a actual continued annual of top athletes who accept died afterwards demography allotment in the London Olympic Games," wrote Gilles Festor in Le Figaro on 5 March.
"This Olympic 'curse' has now claimed 18 victims."
But why was it in France that this abstraction took hold? Maybe because of the abominable deaths of two French Olympians on 9 March 2015, says Paula Kennedy, who monitors European media for the BBC.
Swimmer Camille Muffat and boxer Alexis Vastine were a allotment of 10 humans asleep if two helicopters collided in Argentina, during the filming of a TV adaptation show, Dropped, area celebrities are alone in asperous area and larboard to acquisition aliment and shelter.
The adventure had ample appulse in France. "The abrupt afterlife of our adolescent French nationals is a could cause of immense sadness," said French President Francois Hollande in a statement.
All the athletes who accept accepted to accept died afterwards aggressive in the 2012 Olympics are listed at the basal of the page.
It sounds like a lot - 18 adolescent athletes dying in four years - but is it really, if you accede that 10,568 humans took allotment in the Games?
Based on awkward bloodshed ante "you would apprehend 7.89 humans in 1,000 to die," says Rob Mastrodomenico, a sports statistician at Global Sports Statistics.
So in a accumulation of 10,568 humans one could apprehend about 333 to die over a four-year period, he says.
However, Olympic athletes are adolescent - they accept an boilerplate age of 26. Demography this into account, we should apprehend about seven deaths a year, says Mastrodomenico, or 28 deaths in four years.
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So the amount of 18 deaths over four years does not assume absolutely so out of the accustomed - and absolutely not the assurance of a "curse".
London Olympians who accept died
7 December 2012 Keitani Graham, Micronesian wrestler (heart attack)
3 January 2013 Burry Stander, South African abundance biker (hit by car while training)
9 May 2013 Andrew Simpson, British sailor (sailing accident)
15 June 2013 Elena Ivashchenko, Russian judoka (suicide)
4 August 2013 Billy Ward, Australian boxer (suicide)
16 August 2013 Abdelrahman el-Trabily, Egyptian wrestler (shot dead)
19 October 2013 Jakkrit Panichpatikum, Thai ballista (shot dead)
6 November 2013 Christian Lopez, Guatemalan weightlifter (pneumonia)
29 December 2013 Besik Kudukhov, Russian wrestler (car accident)
3 May 2014 Elena Baltacha, British tennis amateur (liver cancer)
9 March 2015 Camille Muffat, French swimmer (helicopter crash)
9 March 2015 Alexis Vastine, French boxer (helicopter crash)
27 March 2015 Daundre Barnaby, Canadian 400m agent (missing at sea)
25 June 2015 Trevor Moore, American sailor (missing at sea)
October 2015 Yuliya Balykina, Belarusian sprinter (murdered)
10 November 2015 Laurent Vidal, French triathlete (heart attack)
10 December 2015 Arnold Peralta, Honduran soccer amateur (shot dead)
3 March 2016 Sarah Tait, Australian rower (cervical cancer)
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