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Originally Posted by You Need a Thneed

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.

Obviously? Appears not.