If the abundance of Olympic sports persuades you to take up a new discipline in autumn — maybe something you’d never thought of before — you may want to consider its safety first. New research compared the number of athletes in each discipline to the number of reported injuries, determining the sports with the highest risk factors. The findings are somewhat surprising: BMX emerged as the most dangerous Olympic sport, with a 34.38% injury rate, while table tennis and handball were more injury-prone than equestrian and trampoline. BMX — an abbreviation for bicycle motocross — is a cycle sport pe…