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Goalies getting cancer on Artificial turf
Posted on 10/8/14 at 6:10 pm
Posted on 10/8/14 at 6:10 pm
Just read this and passing on to you soccer parents...
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BY HANNAH RAPPLEYE
Soccer coach Amy Griffin was in a Seattle hospital visiting a young goalie who was receiving chemotherapy when a nurse said something that made the hair on Griffin’s neck stand up.
It was 2009. Two young female goalies Griffin knew had been diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Griffin, associate head coach for the University of Washington’s women’s soccer team, had started to visit the women and other athletes in local hospitals, helping them pass the time during chemo with war stories from her three decades of coaching.
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That day, the nurse looked down at the woman Griffin was sitting with and said, "Don't tell me you guys are goalkeepers. You're the fourth goalkeeper I've hooked up this week."
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But for goalkeepers, whose bodies are in constant contact with the turf, it can be far worse. In practices and games, they make hundreds of dives, and each plunge sends a black cloud of tire pellets into the air. The granules get into their cuts and scrapes, and into their mouths. Griffin wondered if those crumbs – which have been known to contain carcinogens and chemicals – were making players sick.
This post was edited on 10/10/14 at 12:04 pm
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Posted on 10/8/14 at 7:26 pm to BestBanker
I'm not a goalie but I'm fricked. I've cleaned a million of those things out my wounds over the past decade.
Posted on 10/8/14 at 11:23 pm to BestBanker
Under this line of thinking, there should be a good number of football players with the same diagnosis.
Posted on 10/9/14 at 12:53 am to BestBanker
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This post was edited on 4/9/23 at 2:18 pm
Posted on 10/9/14 at 1:22 am to msutiger
No idea if there is any causality in that scenario.
Still, I would love for this to be a contributing factor in forever removing artificial turf from soccer as well as football.
Still, I would love for this to be a contributing factor in forever removing artificial turf from soccer as well as football.
Posted on 10/9/14 at 7:55 am to RandySavage
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Since then, Griffin has compiled a list of 38 American soccer players -- 34 of them goalies – who have been diagnosed with cancer. At least a dozen played in Washington, but the geographic spread is nationwide. Blood cancers like lymphoma and leukemia dominate the list.
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During high school, she played on multiple teams at once, with two-hour practices five days a week, and games at least twice a week. Every day, she tried to clean the black rubber pellets, the “turf bugs,” out of the abrasions and burns she suffered as a goalkeeper on turf. Every day, to the chagrin of her mother, she shook them from her clothes and cleats onto the laundry room floor. She brushed them out of her hair, and spit them out of her mouth.
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Tens of thousands of different tires from different brands may be used in one field. According to the EPA, mercury, lead, benzene, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, and arsenic, among several other chemicals, heavy metals, and carcinogens, have been found in tires.
There seems to be a reason to thoroughly test and come to a sound conclusion. I just finished reading the entire article. WOW?!
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