The fuck is wrong with him!?! Even if we had advanced cybernetics or could grow body parts, I wouldn't be chopping off parts of my body just to skip injury time.

Is this an Australia thing as I remembered how they tried to pressure Novac to take the vaccine to play and he refused siting he'd rather wait to get the title and record than risk his body to do so. He was at least foreign so could escape the prison colony so I can't imagine the pressure domestic athletes are under who have no escape.