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Originally Posted by zamler
It has nothing to do with "believing" what could possibly happen. It did happen, which means from an engineering perspective, the design failed.
That is the whole point of safely as part of any design. You don't design it to fail, but put in measures in case it does. And you always over engineer, just in case you were wrong. I find this death completely inexcusable.
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The people who know what they are talking about obviously had to approve the track design - I'm assuming the international Luge Federation. Also obviously, that's going to include over engineering for safety.
Thus, it should be clear that the people with knowledge of how luge works didn't think what happened today was possible.
Talking about negligence in this case is utterly silly, at least coming from any of us, who have absolutely no knowledge of track design. Let the IOCs/ILFs investigation figure out what happened.