Won't find Yoga here!

Most dangerous sport among girls/women: Cheerleading. Cheerleading accounted for 65.2 percent of high school and 70.5 percent of college catastrophic injuries among all female sports. The next most dangerous sports: gymnastics (nine such injuries) and track (seven). http://www.livescience.com/health/080811-cheerleading-injuries.html

The Top 15 Sports Related Injuries in the US:
-Basketball: 512,213
-Bicycling: 485,669
-Football: 418,260
-Soccer: 174,686
-Baseball: 155,898
-Skateboards: 112,544
-Trampolines: 108,029
-Softball: 106,884
-Swimming/Diving: 82,354
-Horseback riding: 73,576
-Weightlifting: 65,716
-Volleyball: 52,091
-Golf: 47,360
-Roller skating: 35,003
-Wrestling: 33,734 http://www.livescience.com/health/060614_sport_injuries.html

And the Top 10 in the World:
-Lawn Bowls
-Base Jumping
-Horse Riding
-Golf-Rock Climbing
-Fishing
-Motorcycling
-Cheerleading
-Cave Diving
-Rugby
http://sasthamcotta.wordpress.com/2008/08/25/top-10-most-dangerous-sports-in-the-world/

And: In 2005, the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) estimated the highest numbers of sport-related injures were reported for:
-basketball (409,799),
-football (376,115) and
-bicycling (317,041).
That's not counting minor injuries that didn't require medical attention. The deadliest:
-riding an all-terrain vehicle, according to the CPSC. The sport accounted for 740 deaths in 2003, one-third of which were children under 16.
http://www.forbes.com/2006/11/15/sports-injuries-fitness-forbeslife_cz_cs_1114dangersports.html

Nope .. won't find Yoga anywhere near a list like this. I even googled it, trying to see if Yoga ranked anywhere close. Nope.

Yet, in India - and increasing so here in the US - Yoga is very much a sport:
http://www.yogasport.yoganet.org/

Clearly, Yogi's are in excellent shape. Certainly comparable to athletes when it comes to strength, flexibility and endurance.

Om Peace!
Yogini Valarie Devi