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This study describes the lifetime prevalence of medical attention injuries that occurred during training and\/or competition as part of the athlete\u2019s Olympic career, reasons for retirement from Olympic sport, and the point prevalence of pain and osteoarthritis (OA) among retired Great Britain\u2019s (GB) Olympians.<\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:sec><jats:sec>\n                <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                <jats:p>This cross-sectional study involved distributing a questionnaire to retired GB Olympians who had competed at 36 Olympic Games between Berlin 1936 and Sochi 2014. The questionnaire captured Olympic career injury history (lasting \u2265 1 month), sport exposure, musculoskeletal pain (last 4 weeks), physician-diagnosed OA, and joint replacement. Injury prevalence was calculated for sports with a minimal of 15 respondents. Adjusted odds ratios (aOR) were estimated in logistic regression for pain, OA, and joint replacement. Models were adjusted for age, sex, BMI, and career duration.<\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:sec><jats:sec>\n                <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                <jats:p>Six hundred fifty (57.8% male; 42.2% female) retired athletes representing 40 sports (29 summer; 11 winter), aged 60.5 years (range 23\u201397), completed the questionnaire. Overall, 721 injuries (368 athletes) were self-reported equating to a lifetime Olympic career injury prevalence of 56.6%. Injury prevalence was highest in field athletics (81.0%), gymnastics (75.0%), and track athletics (67.7%). Injuries most frequently occurred at the knee (19.0%), lower back (15.4%), and shoulder (11.5%). Of those injured, 19.5% retired from sport due to injury. Pain was most prevalent at the lumbar spine (32.8%), knee (25.3%), and hip (22.5%), and OA at the knee (13.4%), hip (10.4%), and lumbar spine (4.6%). Injury was associated with pain at the hip (aOR 4.88; 95% CI, 1.87\u201312.72, p = 0.001), knee (aOR 2.35; 95% CI, 1.45\u20133.81, p = 0.001), and lumbar spine (aOR 2.53; 95% CI, 1.63\u20133.92, p &lt; 0.001); OA at the hip (aOR 5.97; 95% CI, 1.59\u201322.47, p = 0.008) and knee (aOR 3.91; 95% CI, 2.21\u20136.94, p &lt; 0.001); and joint replacement at the hip (aOR 8.71; 95% CI, 2.13\u201335.63, p = 0.003) and knee (aOR 5.29; 95% CI, 2.39\u201311.74, p &lt; 0.001).<\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:sec><jats:sec>\n                <jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title>\n                <jats:p>The lifetime prevalence of Olympic career injury was 56.6%, with those injured more likely to self-report current pain and\/or OA at the hip, knee, and lumbar spine and joint replacement at the hip and knee.<\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1186\/s40798-021-00339-1","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2021,7,31]],"date-time":"2021-07-31T11:02:49Z","timestamp":1627729369000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/springer_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":19,"title":["A Cross-Sectional Study of Retired Great British Olympians (Berlin 1936\u2013Sochi 2014): Olympic Career Injuries, Joint Health in Later Life, and Reasons for Retirement from Olympic Sport"],"prefix":"10.1186","volume":"7","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-9815-956X","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Dale J.","family":"Cooper","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Mark E.","family":"Batt","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Mary S.","family":"O\u2019Hanlon","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Debbie","family":"Palmer","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"297","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2021,7,31]]},"reference":[{"issue":"17","key":"339_CR1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"1270","DOI":"10.1136\/bjsports-2014-093992","volume":"48","author":"L Engebretsen","year":"2014","unstructured":"Engebretsen L, Bahr R, Cook JL, Derman W, Emery CA, Finch CF, et al. 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