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Originally Posted by malcolmk14
Could you imagine the international backlash if they went ahead with the event as planned and somehow another young competitor tragically died?
You can be rest assured, if they are going to continue with this event, it is because this was an absolute freak accident. There is no way they continue if this death is found to be the fault of the track, and nothing is done to make it more safe.
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The difficult part is that they have such a limited time frame to make a decision. The competition was supposed to start tomorrow, and the track is going to be used for skeleton and bobsled as well so postponing becomes pretty tough. They also have to decide if skeleton and bobsled are safe to run, I read that some athletes think that bobsled is the most dangerous as the risk of the sled landing on people is relatively high.