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New York Times: Sledding athletes are taking their lives. Did brain-rattling rides and high-speed crashes damage their brains?

By Matthew Futterman
New York Times·
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On May 3, Pavle Jovanovic, a former bobsledder, rigged a chain to a crane he and his brother kept in the shop of their family's metal works in Toms River, New Jersey. He tied the loose end around his neck and hanged himself.

Jovanovic, an Olympian, was just 43, but experiencing the shakes and tremors often associated with Parkinson's disease. He was also the third elite North American bobsledder to kill himself since 2013. Adam Wood, whose wife taped his

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