“Australian hockey ‘star’ amputates finger to play at Olympics” [because he didn’t want to wait for an injury to heal]…. I suppose this is the inevitable result of the sick society we’ve ended up with, but it’s still profoundly insane, that he made this decision and rationalized it thus… - Kotaku In Action 2

“Australian hockey ‘star’ amputates finger to play at Olympics” [because he didn’t want to wait for an injury to heal]…. I suppose this is the inevitable result of the sick society we’ve ended up with, but it’s still profoundly insane, that he made this decision and rationalized it thus… (archive.is)

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– bloodguard 8 points 118 days ago +8 / -0

Ronnie Lott chopped off one of his pinky fingers back in '85.

So, Lott faced a decision from doctors: put a pin in his finger and a cast over it and wait eight weeks for it to heal, or amputate the tip of the finger off from the first joint up and be able to play right away.

Sure enough, Lott picked option B, amputation, and parted ways with his pinky. Doctors numbed it, sliced it off and put it in a cast.

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