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Im sure some of u heard about the luge accident in vancouver, its horrible, they showed the video of the accident on the news at 6 here, but now i cant find it anywhere its like it dissapeared.

i was wanting to show my dad the story its crazy

either way this was terrible, 21 years old trying to do a once in a lifetime thing for u and ur country and some freak shit like that happens SUX

Saw that someone else said they felt the track was unsafe as well yesterday before that happened. Best wishes to his family!

In for video.
That is very sad. I believe he was past the finish line, went off course and hit a metal pole that was not padded.

I found the video. He was flying! And then it looked like his sled bounced off the walls and he went flying off into a pole.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/1 ... 60474.html

That video didn't work earlier for me. Jeeeezus. He was flying in both senses of the word.

I watched the video on the news tonight, that video just made me cringe. Poor guy

This is a clearer video, may work better too:

http://www.nbcolympics.com/news-feature ... 12058.html

OMG, that is terrible! It's so sad.

He was so young and everything too. R.I.P.

wow...

damn, it doesnt look like he suffered tho, which is a good thing i guess..

Holy shit....poor guy that's insane.

I figured something bad was going to make the news yesterday, one year ago Feb 12th was flight 3407....

GreeNeons03 wrote:This is a clearer video, may work better too:

http://www.nbcolympics.com/news-feature ... 12058.html

That vid works the other one doesn't

Wow! That is so messed up that those barriers aren't padded! Specially right after that big turn. Around 90mph too

Yeah, they really need to add some way to keep these guys ON the track so stuff like this doesn't happen again.

Yea this is pretty fucked up.

What's even more fucked up is the news article saying it's all his fault.

Wow, thats crazy!

It seems to me it would be common sense to take every safety precaution with something that dangerous.. Padding those steel bars and even enclosing the whole track with some type of netting.

RIP Nodar Kumaritashvili

MyNeonSaysHi wrote: Wow! That is so messed up that those barriers aren't padded! Specially right after that big turn. Around 90mph too

This is what I am thinking, too....

You'd think they could at least put some padding there.....

- Nick

Looks like the guy was going to die anyways but in the pictures in the first link they are doing the Ambu bag and oral adjunct all wrong...

NickKo wrote:

MyNeonSaysHi wrote: Wow! That is so messed up that those barriers aren't padded! Specially right after that big turn. Around 90mph too

This is what I am thinking, too....

You'd think they could at least put some padding there.....

- Nick

yes, it was a sad incident, but when you hit anything that doesn't move at 90mph (padded or not) you're toast. I'm not trying by any means to down play how sad it is that it happened. I'm just pointing out the simple truth

WOW that's so fucked up. What a horrible way to die, it looked like he was at the end too.

A net, or fuck, enclosing the whole thing like a water slide would seem like a better idea. Yes, 90mph is no fun to be bouncing off shit, but I know motorcycle riders who have gone down even faster and survived.

Agreed with all of u sad way to go. Rip. You would think that there would be extra safety due to thatits the freakin olympics and these guys and girls are the best in the world. You think that they should be extra cautious with everything to prevent such accidents. The only other thing I can say is that he's in a better place and hopefully we all take better care of these people now since something so terrible happened. God bless his family through these times.

This situation is no different than any other safety situation. Generally someone has to die before drastic changes are made.

On June 21, 2008, Scott Kallita died as a result of a runaway nitro funny car that his a pole at the very end of the race track. For the 2010 racing season all nitro cars are required to have a device that once the car passes a transponder, which is 400' past the finish line, the ignition and fuel will be shut off.

May this Olympian R.I.P. and the powers that be use this tragedy as a learning experience so it doesn't happen again.

This is definitely terrible! but like it was said before I doubt padding would have done anything. A net probably would have saved his life but if your putting it there then you have to put it around everything. He definitely F'ed up that corner bad so It really could happen anywhere!

Hm... so who are we nominating to bite the bullet and make 2gn a better place?

now they have built a wall to completly inclose it all, it just sux that he had to die for something to happen

DOSneons wrote:now they have built a wall to completly inclose it all, it just sux that he had to die for something to happen

it was a pretty freak accident and the guy got out of shape pretty bad. I doubt anyone thought that would even be possible let alone happen with this caliber of athlete. It really sucks it happened but it was a freak accident that I dont think could have really been planned for unless they put nets around everything

A net wouldn't work. The guy would get out of control and snag a leg as he flew by at 80+ and rip it right off.

The best way (I think, at least) is to enclose the entire tube, like a water slide. That's certainly the best suggestion I've heard so far, at least.

TheRandom1 wrote:A net wouldn't work. The guy would get out of control and snag a leg as he flew by at 80+ and rip it right off.

The best way (I think, at least) is to enclose the entire tube, like a water slide. That's certainly the best suggestion I've heard so far, at least.

ya for sure I think building up the walls and tunneling would be the best solution but then are they going to do it around every corner on every straight to make sure it doesnt happen again? I just dont think its fair to say that its sad this had to happen for soemthing to be done. They can always make a bit more safe but they have to eventually stop somewhere and plan for 99% of accidents. This one really seemed like it fits in that last 1%

Sounds like a good plan to me...

TheRandom1 wrote:Sounds like a good plan to me...

I dont think thats a viable solution... Theres an aspect of risk in ever sport heck in everything we do in day to day life. like I said all you can really do is plan for 99% of things that could happen and hope that the 1% doesnt happen. ps the numbers I just made up for arguement sake, this accident is probably more like 1 in a billion