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Injury Poll

July 25, 2002
















You've been to the stores, or at least walked by one on your way to the hill. You may have even worked in one, hawking the cheese-ridden garments to souvenir-hungry tourists. Inevitably, a prominent shirt-front proudly proclaims "Chicks Dig Scars!"

This may or may not be true, but one unfortunate side-effect of long years in our sport is almost omnipresent: injuries. Many leave marks, whether as immediate scars or later as surgical incisions.

So what's your favorite injury? Which particular combination of unlikely events led to a great story behind a gruesome battle wound--one of the days when you missed a step in in that delicate dance with gravity?