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Originally Posted by valo403
Ah yes, the FIL made a comprehensive investigation in a matter of hours and absolved themselves of blame. That sounds completely legitimate  . If an investigation that takes more than an afternoon finds the same thing maybe I'd accept it, but forgive me for not giving a lot of credit to such a rushed investigation.
And this has nothing to do with blaming Vancouver. How does critique of the planning and foresight of track designers turn into blaming Vancouver? Did the citizens get a say on track design and safety implementation?
Your tunnel argument is typical of someone who can't actually argue their point. Just jump to some extreme end point and act as if that's the only other option. As I said previously, I watched footage of 2 athletes slam into the upper portion of that same wall yesterday. Crashes in that location are not shockingly uncommon, and in two other instances in the last 48 hours an athlete was airborne through that area. An area with a low wall backed by steel poles.
As I said previously (thanks for not addressing my points by the way, nice work), over or under steering into and out of turns is not uncommon in sliding sports. It happens in every race, it's the difference between medal contenders and the rest of the field. Such common mistakes should never expose and athlete to something like what happened yesterday. There's a big difference between slamming into a wall and back onto the track and flying into steel poles, and it doesn't take a tunnel to prevent it. |
Actually, I did address your point. And anyone who watches the video can see the driver loses control WELL in advance of finally flying over the edge. In fact, he hits the other wall first. You'd think that would stop him from bouncing back even higher, but for some reason, it doesn't. Gross driver error.
But then who are we all to place blame? Looks like you're waiting for an official of some sort to agree with you instead of oppose you. Are the men out there doing training again today? Because if they are, I'd say they also would oppose you. They are the ones who would know best, after all. How many times have they completed a safe run?
And AGAIN, they've increased the height of the wall there. I would say we'll find out if anyone hits that wall fairly high in the future if it was the fault of the engineers.
But since you say you've seen video of people airborne there... let's see it.