Australia’s Dawson on amputation: ‘Little less finger to worry about’
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30-year-old Australian field hockey player Matthew Dawson broke his finger in training earlier this month and faced an operation that would’ve sidelined him from the Olympics as part of a four to six-month recovery. He chose a shorter-term fix: the partial amputation of a finger.