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Horific Accident at the Olympic

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spidey07 said:
Padding wouldn't have and won't help. That kind of deceleration the body just can't take. That section of the course looks like a death trap.
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but if you enclose it as a tube at the turn exits, at least they have a chance to just slide to the end. But I guess that doesn't help the tv coverage.


typo fixed...
 
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spidey07 said:
Padding wouldn't have and won't help. That kind of deceleration the body just can't take. That section of the course looks like a death trap.
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He crashed into what looks like a metal pole, if it was soft padding, I think he would still be alive.
 
TheVrolok said:
Now that I've seen the video, I don't think putting padding around the pole would have done anything. That was just brutal.
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i think he means if there were no poles, but rather something like an inflatable structure to keep the elements off the track
 
holy shit i just seen it. looks like a bad design of the track to me.

those guys amaze me. they are going very fast and a little mistake can be bad.

teh luge is one of the few winter sports i enjoy seeing. its just flat out amazing.
 
Ouch. That course does look awfully dangerous. I wonder what the IOC will do to try to correct it. Frankly I imagine most of the athletes would still want to compete for medals in luge even if they knew there was a chance of dying at that point on the track.
 
ElFenix said:
i think he means if there were no poles, but rather something like an inflatable structure to keep the elements off the track
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I'm honestly not sure what you could put there to prevent an accident like that. Maybe something like a spider netting or some sort of inflatable structure would give him at least a shot. Obviously gigantic metal beams aren't very forgiving.
 
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Nodar Kumaritashvili of Georgia is seen being given chest compressions and mouth-to-mouth resuscitation after crashing during a training run for the men's singles luge Friday.
 
As much as I like luge, they need to shut that track down. That enclosure around the last turn is just insane, whoever designed that should be horsewhipped
 
official now

http://www.ctvolympics.ca/luge/news/newsid=39315.html#georgian+luger+life+threatening+crash

Georgian luger Nodar Kumaritashvili was rushed to hospital after a life-threatening crash on Friday at the Whistler Sliding Centre during a training run. German IOC official Thomas Bach confirmed the 21-year-old has died as a result of the crash, according to AFP.
Kumaritashvili was hurled off the track and knocked unconscious near the bottom of the track during his second of two runs.
He was clocked at 144.3 km/h before he hit one side of the wall, crashed into the other, and was thrown off his sled and over the wall. He appeared to hit a metal pole on the side of the track after he flew over the wall.
The accident occurred on the outrun of a turn named Thunderbird.
Track medical staff immediately rushed to the scene, administered CPR and rushed him to hospital in an air ambulance.
"I've never seen anything like that," said four-time Olympian Shiva Keshavan, of India. "I'm afraid it's bad."
Kumaritashvili is ranked No. 44 in the world.
Training was delayed after the accident and race officials say there will be a hold on the track until further notice.
Earlier Friday, reigning Olympic luge gold medallist Armin Zöggeler of Italy managed to walk away after crashing in his first run, but came back to complete a clean second run.
The two time Olympic champion and four-time medallist lost control in the lower section of his opening run, tearing down the track while holding on to his sled before coming to a halt. He stood up almost immediately after the crash.
Zöggeler was driven off in a medical vehicle, but returned for his second run.
There have been more than a dozen crashes during Olympic training. A Romanian woman was briefly knocked unconscious earlier this week.
"I think they are pushing it a little too much,'' Australia's Hannah Campbell-Pegg said Thursday after she nearly lost control in training. "To what extent are we just little lemmings that they just throw down a track and we're crash-test dummies? I mean, this is our lives.''

Luge competition begins on Saturday with men's singles.
 
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