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Hockey star Matt Dawson amputates finger to play at Olympics (www.bbc.com)

submitted 6 months ago by mecfs@lemmy.world to c/nottheonion@lemmy.world

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[–] KillerTofu@lemmy.world 90 points 6 months ago (10 children)

Matt Dawson badly broke a digit on his right hand during team training in Perth two weeks ago, and recovery from surgery to repair it would have taken months. So, the 30-year-old decided to have the finger removed from the knuckle up in order to take part in his third Games, shocking his team-mates and coach.

[–] Kalkaline@leminal.space 37 points 6 months ago (8 children)

Honestly not a terrible decision. It sounds like even if he went ahead and did the surgery to try to salvage the finger it might not have given him full function of that digit. Why keep the finger if it's not even going to be usable?

[–] nonailsleft@lemm.ee 3 points 6 months ago

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