injuries and understanding what is a salvageable injury is it an injury that allows the athlete to compete later on in the event or is it an injury that means that they will be wiped and they will be unable to participate so theres a different aspect of thatso theres also an element of risk and benefit for athletes who perhaps are participating in their final games or their last events prior to retirement perhaps versus those younger athletes who are perhaps coming forward for their first games and have got a long career ahead of them theres a bit of risk balance to be done there with the athletes and with the coaching staff and potentially their families tooif you look at athletes like say novak djokovic cristiano ronaldo virat kohli they have taken fitness levels to different heights how are they able to sustain it in a highperformance highpressure environmentit will be very difficult for me to comment on individuals like djokovic or athletes in sports that i really dont deal with because the fitness demands are very very different their backgrounds i simply dont know so i dont know how theyve developed through their development phase as a young athlete into their competition phase as a professional athleteso its really hard to examine from the outside because essentially thats all i would be doing as well looking from the outside the fitness and abilities of some of these great athletes youre describing who are managing to stay at the top of their sport for an extended period of time