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Originally Posted by gargamel
There's a huge difference between a person quitting in an individual sport and a person quitting in a team sport where him quitting means the entire team is out. Plus I'm faily certain that a lot of the people who were saying lugers should pull out really just wanted that for the shame that it would bring on Vancouver.
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Except this is a team sport where he's basically responsible for the lives of his teammates. If you've got a choice of disappointing your teammates or seriously injuring them, it's an easy choice. If he doesn't think he can get them down the hill safely, he shouldn't be taking their lives in his hands. He crashed last year at Whistler and put two guys in the hospital. He had a bad crash at Altenberg earlier this season (a very technical and difficult course that's often compared to Whistler). Lots of athletes are overmatched here, and he's one of the few who can admit it.