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Bobsled and Skeleton, said the organization вЂњtakes athlete safety very seriously. In a statement last year, Aron McGuire, chief executive of U.S.A. They deal with constant headaches, a heightened sensitivity to bright lights and loud noises, forgetfulness and psychological problems. In recent years, an increasing number of current and retired athletes in sliding sports have said they suffer chronically from many of the same conditions that plague football players and other contact sport athletes. In 2017, Steven Holcomb, who piloted the American bobsled known as the вЂњNight TrainвЂќ to the Olympic gold medal in 2010, was found dead in Lake Placid, N.Y., from an apparent overdose of alcohol and sleeping pills. Jovanovic was the third elite North American bobsledder to kill himself since 2013.

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Later that year, The New York Times published a series of stories on former athletes in bobsled and skeleton who have struggled with similar symptoms. They asked for that compensation to include a fund that will pay for intensive medical monitoring of former athletes as well as вЂњthe establishment of a Court-Supervised Compensation program for those individuals who have already been diagnosed, treated, and or harmed (including death) by brain injury, including neurodegenerative and behavioral disorders and diseases.вЂќ Person and his lawyers asked the court to certify a class of plaintiffs that will seek compensation from U.S.A. In the lawsuit, PersonвЂ™s lawyers argued that the bobsled organization knew as long ago as 1983 that the sport could cause serious brain injuries, which can lead to significant and irreversible medical conditions, but did not properly share the information with its athletes or adequately work to protect their health and safety. Bobsled and Skeleton, the organization that oversees those two sports in the United States. William Person, who competed for the United States from 1999 to 2007, filed the lawsuit in a state court in California against U.S.A. A former bobsledder filed a class-action suit against the sportвЂ™s national governing body on Wednesday, claiming the organization failed for decades to warn athletes about or protect them from brain injuries.

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