Unfortunately behind a paywall, but it's a topic I've been wondering about.
While I watch less sports than I used to, my small social circle is still largely of the sports watching variety. I've heard them muse casually a few times that sports seem far more unpredictable over the last couple of years. I often wonder, one, if that's correct, and if so how much of it has to do with COVID. You'd think that a fairly small health change would be amplified in that setting.
This is, of course, separate from cases like Jonathan Toews which are obvious and out there.
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• https://www.blick.ch/sport/rad/hirschi-leidet-unter-corona-spaetfolgen-auch-kueng-erst-bei-90-prozent-so-schlecht-zwaeg-wie-jetzt-war-ich-noch-nie-id17648645.html
• https://www.srf.ch/sport/allgemein/long-covid-im-spitzensport-jan-lochbihler-und-die-folgen-der-corona-infektion
• https://www.blick.ch/sport/rad/pellaud-leidet-an-long-covid-schweizer-rad-profi-fuerchtet-um-karriere-id17590227.html
• https://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/die-schweizer-rekordhalterin-tritt-wegen-long-covid-zurueck-760969270830
• https://www.tennisworldde.com/tennis/news/Wta/16691/tanysha-dissanayake-war-wegen-viruskomplikationen-fur-300-tage-ans-haus-gefesselt/
• https://www.spiegel.de/sport/olympia/kanu-steffi-kriegerstein-muss-ihre-karriere-wegen-long-covid-beenden-a-0fd55231-6fff-4c80-ac4f-a9ce83311ac4
• https://edition.cnn.com/2021/07/21/sport/olympics-athletes-struggling-with-long-covid-spt-intl-cmd/index.html
• https://www.sportschau.de/newsticker/dpa-erschoepfungssyndrom-schachmann-beendet-saison-vorzeitig-100.html