世界上最危险的体育运动

"Some get their kicks from champagne..." while others like jumping off tall buildings.

Since Icarus, humans have been compelled to test how close to a nasty death they can go.

Defining the world's most dangerous sport remains a tricky subject, mainly due to limited data: Unsurprisingly, organizers and participants are loath to publicize deaths. (Existing information produces curious results. In the U.K., for example, angling kills more people each year than any other sport, due to drowning, but it is by no means deemed extreme.) The key is not the death toll but what the worst-case scenario is if something goes wrong.