02-12-2010, 04:27 PM
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Originally Posted by HOOT
1964 was when Luge was first introduced to the Olympics and it weather was to blame for the accident. And actually only one person died at the Luge event, and one was a skier.
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Hence my use of "one of them" 
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Personally if I have been luging all my life and I felt there was a chance someone could die I would have said no and made a stink about it. No one did, including the athletes, because no one could have imagined someone flying over the edge like that.
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It doesn't matter what someone could have imagined, the point is whether or not the designers SHOULD have imagined it. I don't know the answer to that, but the question isn't what people thought, it's what they should have been thinking.
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Well if you think all sports are designed for an athlete to push 100% and not know his limits that is your issue and you don't really understand sports very well. This was a crash. Just happened to be a crash that turned into a freakish death. |
This last part is just a golden example of ridiculous thinking. Every single competitor is going to push to get down the track as fast as possible, that's not even questionable. In doing so they will be on the very edge of a crash at numerous points, but world class athletes have the ability to generally avoid those crashes. The designers know all of this, and you obviously can't design a track that is both competitive and accident proof. The part that is somehow going over your head, and this is really quite stunning, is that the consequences of a crash on a properly designed track should never be virtually certain death. It's completely unacceptable.
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