Arizona State hockey player Matthew Mayich is on life support after he experienced a heat stroke during an August training workout.
This comes 25 years after NFL lineman Korey Stringer’s heat-stroke death. Mayich’s incident raises the troubling question: How much safer are athletes against heat-related illnesses today?
We discuss this with Tik Root, senior staff writer at Grist.
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