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You didn't address my points at all. You act as if this accident was completely unexpected, when in fact there have been at least two other athletes come within a matter of inches of suffering the same fate. You also pretend like overcompensating in turns is uncommon, go back to your first post and read what you said. Crashes due to over/under compensation are incredibly common, this wasn't a mistake that was completely unforeseeable. It wasn't a gross error, it was an error that occurs on every track every single day.
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Lol. I have never once said that the accident was 'completely unexpected'. What I have said is that tracks are designed such that the walls are higher where crashes are expected. Guy was halfway down a straightaway when he flew over the side. Yeah, I'm pretty sure that's where it's expected to happen, right?
I also never pretended that overcompensating was uncommon, but to grossly overcompensate twice in a row is what led to this man's death. He was an Olympic athlete travelling at top speeds... How often do they grossly overcompensate
twice in a row when trying to correct their line? Overcompensation is fine and does indeed happen quite often. Generally it doesn't result in flying out of the track or I'm sure we would hear about it more often, no? Or there would be more bone breaking injuries at least.
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The video was part of NBC's coverage of the accident prior to the opening ceremonies. If you find yourself a proxy server I'm sure you can find it at nbcolympics.com.
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Lol. But you saw it with two other athletes? Surely there must be somewhere a person could access that video more easily?
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BTW, why would I be waiting for an official to agree with me? That will never happen. Doing so would be an admission of guilt, one that would be fully admissible against them in any coming legal action.
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If not an official, someone well respected within the Luge community. Someone who knows something about track design. I don't think anyone has said anything about it yet. It's the fans who are in an uproar.
And I don't mean the athlete who said in an interview that he thought someone would die on the course. I'm pretty sure he didn't mean 'fly out of the track and die'. But again, you'd have to ask him that.