A separate study, Sudden cardiac death in athletes: the Lausanne Recommendations lists 1101 (1966-2004) reported cases in athletes under 35 years, or an average of 29 per year.
This data set of citizen reports shows 718 (and counting) of such deaths in 2022.
Now, I will acknowledge that the latter data isn't peer reviewed, and the interwebz wasn't around for data collection prior to 1995. That can account for some of these differences.
That said, yeah....I'd say something is up.
Did you bother to take 5 minutes to look at your cites?
A study Sudden Deaths in Young Competitive Athletes-Analysis of 1866 Deaths in the United States, 1980–2006 shows an average of sixty-six (66) deaths per year.
This is limited to young American athletes participating in organized competitive sports who died suddenly. The time period studied was largely before the internet so finding the historical data was tricky, but it looks like an honest attempt at a limited sample.
A separate study, Sudden cardiac death in athletes: the Lausanne Recommendations lists 1101 (1966-2004) reported cases in athletes under 35 years, or an average of 29 per year.
The authors of this study explicitly say, in the paper, that they didn’t try to look at all sources for deaths, they were not trying to count the total number of deaths, and that the study shouldn’t be used for that purpose. Almost as if they anticipated anti-vaxer tactics.
This study has zero relevance to my request.
This data set of citizen reports shows 718 (and counting) of such deaths in 2022.
You say ‘such deaths’ but they’re anything but. It’s a compilation of random deaths from random causes from all over the world of people of almost any age, many who were not competitive athletes at the time of their death.
We have a 34 year old MMA fighter who died of liver cancer.
We have a 55 year old rugby commentator who probably hadn’t played a competitive sport in 20 years.
We have a 55 year old Spanish horse trainer.
What are we supposed to compare this dog’s breakfast of data to?
I repeat, I’ve not seen any evidence of increased deaths of athletes and your post wasn’t even a serious effort.