Cathal Dennehy: Sport has many ways to break your heart and body
Sport is, for the most part, beneficial to health, but that’s not really the case at its truly elite end.
DANGER INVOLVED: Spain's Maria Vicente is evacuated on a stretcher after hurting herself while competing in the Women's Pentathlon High Jump during the Indoor World Athletics Championships. Pic: FRANCOIS-XAVIER MARIT/AFP via Getty Images
The kids were 14 or 15, that age where the line between brave and reckless is often indistinguishable. They were sitting on the 7 train, one of the most popular subway routes on the New York transit system and, for some, one of the deadliest.
At least if your idea of fun is the same as theirs: subway surfing.
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