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Originally Posted by HOOT
I know people want to blame the design and all that but IMO this is a freak accident. How many different athletes, in how many different sports have gone down that track since it was built? Hundreds? If none of them brought it up as a concern why would the people who built it be concerned?
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There've been over a dozen crashes this last week during training runs and mounting safety concerns.
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There had been several other crashes on the luge course. A Romanian woman, Violeta Stramaturaru was knocked briefly unconscious on Thursday and taken to a hospital after slamming into a wall several times.
Several sliders, including four American lugers reported terrible troubles finishing the course, while the gold medal favorite, Armin Zoeggler of Italy, also crashed on his training run, coming off his sled and holding it with his left arm to keep it from hitting his body. He walked away from the crash on Blackcomb Mountain’s southeast side. The cours has 16 turns and drops steeply for 152 meters — the world’s longest drop.
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