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Originally Posted by valo403

1. The top athletes aren't in nearly as much danger of losing control on the track, that's why they are at the top. They interviewed the US luge broadcast team (which is made up of guys who are involved in luge, not some random NBC guys) and that's exactly what they said. The top 15 or so guys are going to be fine, the guys making up the rest of the field are the ones who were at risk of massive crashes.

Okay so inexperience is a factor in someone crashing? So someone who is ranked 55th in the world last year out of 62 lugers would fall into that category? Could the luger himself, doing this for his whole life, not see that maybe pushing it to 100% he is putting himself in danger? I've been 21 before, I know what it is like to push myself when I was driving a car. I'd imagine it would be the same feeling racing for your country in the top event in the world.

2. There's no set time for an investigation, but do you honestly think one afternoon is enough time to come to a definitive conclusion? Seriously? I get that they had a compressed schedule to work with, and I think they've made the right adjustments, but that doesn't mean that more investigation shouldn't be done before the blame is placed solely on driver error. If there's a lawsuit, which there most certainly will be, a much more thorough review of the design and safety measures will take place. I'll take the results of that much more seriously.

Exactly more time will tell. If it comes back to say it was a design flaw I will eat my words but until than I have to assume that someone flying out of the track, again NEVER had happened before, is a freak accident until proven other wise.

3. I've already had this conversation with you, but I guess I have to do it again. It's not about what people saw coming, it's about what people SHOULD have seen coming. I don't know that this was something they should have seen coming, that's something that will come out in a more thorough review, but if it was the people responsible should be held accountable.

So you want every single freak accident to be taken into account when they are building something, and if that can't be guaranteed it shouldn't go ahead? This has NEVER happened before, how do you prepare for something that has NEVER happened before?

Can I go back and sue Toyota for my Uncle dying in 1984 because they didn't invent airbags by then? Who cares that he was drinking and driving and smashed into a oncoming car, they should have thought of that.

This is what it feel like, people wanted the IOC/IFL to think of every little tiny thing that could go wrong. You just can't do it, it's impossible to even try. If we waited for perfection we would never see another sporting even for the remainder of our lives.