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I love Shani Davis. A black speed-skater...who'd have thunk it!
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Sad story, a luger from the country of Georgia was killed in a training run this morning.
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why´d that asshole speak about it at all if the family hasn´t been notified yet? Anonimity my ass ...
Propably not exactly the important aspect here, but i felt like pointing it out... Just this morning there had been a a quote by a german luger in the paper saying that the speed of the tracks has "definitely reached a critical point" ... he was going at over 140 KPH, just to give an idea what extremes we are talking about... |
Yeah, the course seems way too fast based on what everyone is saying and I'm not sure why those poles weren't padded.
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At 70+ MPH, I'm not sure that taking a header into a padded pole is going to make much difference. Sad situation. |
There had already been comments about the luge track and there are many skiers from what I understand complaining about the speed of their courses. Sounds like some dangerous situations for a lot of people.
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The other problem from reading the articles is that the Canadians restricted the use of the tracks prior to the games for everyone but their own team. So people just don't have a lot of experience on it.
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I saw this; and the least they could do was put some nets or something there. Those poles are 3 foot off the course and when he hit it; it was like throwing someone against a wall.
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Great start to the Olympics.
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Okay, that's just "duh". |
Reading about the ex-luger, it seems the guy wasn't very good, was a far cry from being competitive, had crashed on this track before, and it could be argued that he had no place competing on a wolrd-class and very dangerous course.
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The gold-medal favorite crashed on the same course today, could have just as easily been him. |
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First of all, I didn't say the guy deserved to die, you asshat.
Secondly, I just watched the video and there is really no excuse for not having some kind of protective barrier between 80mph lugers and 0mph steel I-beams. That's a colossal design flaw. |
Three feet? Those things look like they're three inches off the course.
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And ... there are a lot of those poles ...
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They hadn't started yet... |
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Stay classy FOFC... |
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I can only speak for myself, and say that this is the first time I've ever paid attention to pole-distance-from-luge-course, so far all I know this is the standard set-up, based on some sort of structural necessity.
....but man, that sure does look like an obviously bad idea. |
I think the minimum should be higher walls.
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OK, after seeing the pictures, I recant my previous statement. Those are a lot closer to the course than the original story I read seemed to indicate.
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+1. I know nothing about this but at first glance looks like the kind of thing any health and safety department would take one look at and shut the entire operation down. Could be that it's just the most tragic fluke accident in the history of sport, they did everything right and just didn't think it was possible for somebody to hit it like that, but it just looks really bad right now. |
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Someone asked that and they said they don't have higher walls because then the spectators can't see. |
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Kind of what crossed my mind. Seeing those pictures, I wondered about the legal liability and what waivers the athletes are required to sign. |
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I am a simple man, but Plexiglas is see through. |
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That bothers me for a variety of reasons. |
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That or nets. Like someone said earlier, it takes a death a lot of times before people ask whether something could be done a lot better than it is. |
Surely death is an occupational hazard with something as crazy as luge?
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I don't know what's normally done, but I'd think this is just how Olympics function? Kind of like a home-field advantage? |
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not sure, but i'd think not. it's not supposed to be about "home field advantage" it's supposed to be about "even playing field" |
how many more viewers will luge be getting this year now?
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look at the natives getting down to bryan adams and nellie furtado. :cool:
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All I have to say is that I hope NBC never does the olympics again. How do I live in the same freaking time zone as the games and yet I'm stuck watching tape delayed coverage. This is 2010!!! People have this cool "new" invention called DVR's. Maybe NBC hasn't heard of them yet. Show the games live and if people want to watch it they can or they can record it.
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This is all leading up to an 80' Wayne Gretzky, right?
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Or rather a 99' tall Wayne Gretzky SI |
I have "Wayne Gretzky wearing Celine Dion's skin as a pelt" in the Olympic torch pool
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Wow....
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Whoops. Oh well. These things happen.
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Great one looked none too pleased to be left hanging on the mechanical difficulty.
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Dola, ah, that's why, Gretzky had shit to do, has to light two cauldrons in one night.
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Nice ceremony until the opera singer and then the lighting of the torch setback.
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Yeah, Gretzky looked the most uncomfortable. I imagine he's a bit of a perfectionist.
Steve Nash looked like "Sweet! I get to light the Olympic torch!" with a giant smile on his face. SI |
ah that's too bad they had the problem at the end. Thought it was a so-so Opening Ceremony. Really liked the computer generated floor stuff like the kid running through the prairies, but thought some stuff like the fiddling/tap dancing went on too long.
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It still looks good, even if it is missing the fourth piece. Do they light that thing indoors the whole Olympic period? |
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