RonaldoVII
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One of my mates from high school is in the GB team, it's so strange seeing him on tv.
It's apparently upon video review more driver error than course design, but from the gobs of the athletes it's a little more touchy than that...
Exactly, driver error is playing a major role apparently in the investigation
Well, the cause is obviously a combination. But in a sport as fast and marginal as lugeing mistakes will be made and it's something the arranging committee, who are ultimately responsible for the safety of the athletes, must factor in. So why on earth were those nazi beams left exposed in the extension of one of the trickiest curves the sport has to offer? As others have pointed out, it would have been so simple to save random lugeguy's life with a bit of plexi or something. IMO this tragedy could turn into a scandal.
The course should be protected enough in those areas though. Coming off that fast huge turn, the wall on both sides of that straight should be high. The beams should have been covered/protected.
Vancouver piled on the Page Ranking shit that this was the fastest course on the world, but yet are struggling to lay blame on the fact that the course was poorly designed. I hope they address the issue and make changes to that turn before any of the luge/skeleton events start otherwise they'll have another injury at that area.
From the Times:
The Canadians have tried to make the most of the home advantage by limiting access to their venues to foreign competitors and maximising access to their own competitors.
While this clearly helps Canadian chances of winning medals, many international athletes have complained that in sports such as luge, they have cranked up the danger.
The British Olympic Association has complained that British athletes have had 10 per cent of the training time of their Canadian rivals. Ron Rossi, the executive director of USA Luge, said this week: “I think it shows a lack of sportsmanship.”
I wouldn't be surprised if a lack of track time is a major factor in the danger of the course. Canadians haven't complained about it(as far as I've read) but they've also had a ton of time to go down it.
Padding, or cushioning on a metal pole..
That's all that could have been the difference between life and death.
Padding would not have helped if he came to a complete stop traveling at 140km/h, he would have died anyway. If it was a smooth wall, however he probably just would have bounced off it and continued down the track.
Fingers crossed for a Bøkko silver medal now.
What a load of excrement. I seriously thought we'd get 2 medals today. Oh well. Here's to Ole, Emil and Lars painting the podium red, white and blue tomorrow. Got a good feeling about Moan too.
I wouldn't be surprised if a lack of track time is a major factor in the danger of the course. Canadians haven't complained about it(as far as I've read) but they've also had a ton of time to go down it.
Ok so what events are the main highlights? Apart from ice hockey none of it really interests me tbh.
It does depend, the short track speed skating is always fun to watch, lots of potential crashes and unexpected winners. Ski and board cross seem to be good events to watch as it's direct racing of which we see not a lot of in the traditional winter sports.
It really does depend on what you want to to watch though, or what you are looking for.
I have a bad feeling about this.