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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.
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I never said that the athletes inexperience wasn't an issue, it was at least partially due to driver error. That doesn't mean that any other causes are out the window.
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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.
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I guess it's just a difference of approach then. I'm not saying the track was inherently dangerous to the point it was obvious someone was going to die, but I don't buy a quick investigation that absolves the people conducting the investigation as fact.
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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. |
Do you understand the concept of foreseeability? That's what this is about, freak accidents aren't foreseeable, that's sort of the meaning of the term. I'm not going to deem this a freak accident though, there were concerns about the track beforehand, and there were at least two athletes thrown into the top of that wall in the last couple of days. I'm not going to chalk up an 8-12" increase in elevation at contact with the wall as a freak accident that wasn't foreseeable right off the bat. Hence my desire for a more thorough review.
And your toyota example doesn't make any sense what so ever. Nobody is asking for something that doesn't exist to be installed.