winter olympics

Grasso · Posted: Feb 13, 2010 11:42 pm Post subject: winter olympics

this is crazy
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=6202969n&tag=related;photovideo

<MikeG> · Backside 180 Joined: 31 Dec 2007 Posts: 1293 City: PBG

that is horrible they changed everything on that course now so much so that wont happen again. they were just talking about it on tv

EJazzle · Posted: Feb 13, 2010 11:48 pm Post subject:

i cant believe they are still showing that. I couldn't believe it when I saw a guy dieing on tv. I personally think that it's disrespectful to him and his family to still have this available to watch.

TWG · Kickflip Joined: 25 Sep 2006 Posts: 3258

wow rip dude

burn · Posted: Feb 14, 2010 12:06 am Post subject:

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=6205615n&tag=api

miller · Backside 180 Joined: 08 Aug 2004 Posts: 2394 City: Regina

I actually work at Canada Olympic Park that hosted the 1988 games.
I have seen some crazy shizzle on our track like bobslields going off the end of the track and people getting hit by luggers while standing in the track. All the incidents I have seen can be attributed to human error in some fashion,

What happened in Vancouver should just not have happened.

scott a · "a" is for angel Joined: 17 Feb 2004 Posts: 4126

miller · Backside 180 Joined: 08 Aug 2004 Posts: 2394 City: Regina

They changed it for luge, but really for where this crashed, the speeds won't be decreased that much. They will basically be moved one turn down the track.

Bobsligh and skeleton (head first luge) will still start at the very top.

electricsnow · cassette Joined: 14 Sep 2003 Posts: 10751 City: Jefferton

scott a, they changed some of the ice profiles on the track as well, and of course they put up that wall where those beams were once exposed.

I watched the luge event last night on TV and it was pretty much like miller said; almost all of the rails ended their run at the speed that that georgian guy was killed at.

-=AlexXx=- · Posted: Feb 14, 2010 2:31 pm Post subject:

thats so freakin sad. Guy prob trained most of his life for this and this happens, why do they keep making the courses faster and faster, that just seems more unsafe. Poor guy, poor family, that crash was brutal. Wouldnt be suprised if he died on impact... 88 mph... omg... most car accidents at that speed there arnt to many survivors..

ZackFL(BRE) · Backside 180 Joined: 11 Oct 2008 Posts: 2386 City: Tampa

scott a · "a" is for angel Joined: 17 Feb 2004 Posts: 4126

electricsnow, interesting. None of that extra stuff was mentioned on the European feed I was watching on my computer. I can't stand listening to the overly dramatic NBC idiots anymore.

kyle · Posted: Feb 14, 2010 4:02 pm Post subject:

I can't believe that the metal posts weren't padded, especially at a part of the track where guys are at their top speeds. Very sad for someone to die so young that was definitely preventable.

knox · Kickflip Joined: 14 Jun 2007 Posts: 4693 City: Gainesville

The president of Georgia-

"They said that what happened yesterday was because of human error. Well, with all due respect . . . one thing I know for sure, that no sports mistake is supposed to lead to a death."

A luger should NEVER be able to get out of the track, and what the chickity china the chinese chicken were those gigantic columns doing there in the first place? What really bugs me is it took them less than a day to put up a wall on the turn that killed him. I saw it when they showed it on TV, I couldn't believe it.

scott a · "a" is for angel Joined: 17 Feb 2004 Posts: 4126

I don't think padding is going to do much at ~90mph, unfortunately.

electricsnow · cassette Joined: 14 Sep 2003 Posts: 10751 City: Jefferton

scott a, I had heard that on NBC's coverage last night.

And I agree. Padding isn't going to do too much at 90 mph.

price.dan · Backside 180 Joined: 10 May 2006 Posts: 1404 City: Regina

-=AlexXx=- · Posted: Feb 15, 2010 12:27 am Post subject:

I was thinking that about the pillars too... why dont they have some sort of wall there so at least can he could have just slid down it and eventually stopped with possibly a broken bone or 2 at most. This is just crazy.

kornhouse · Posted: Feb 15, 2010 11:53 am Post subject:

scott a, It's better than having just the columns to get twisted up on. It's like how we cover the support poles on our rails with plywood sometimes so our legs and arms don't get caught and snap. I'd rather fall 30' and land on a sheet of metal than fall 30' towards metal beams one foot wide and a couple feet apart and risk not clearing between them and getting racked.

BryceBell · Posted: Feb 15, 2010 8:08 pm Post subject:

The thing is that you never really think about that stuff until something bad happens.. if this never would of happened no one would of ever said anything about it. Its just terrible something like this had to happen for them to realize to make it safer.