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Originally Posted by Blaster86
This is old news. I thought it was pretty common knowledge that they knew it might be too fast.
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I think it's the fact that CBC (recently) got a hold of the emails and the contrast between this:
In the e-mail exchange with staff, Furlong said "So after my usual seven second delay on this - While I am inclined to ingore this as not our deal - embedded in this note (cryptic as it may be] is a warning that the track is, in their view, too fast and someone could get badly hurt. An athlete gets badly injured or worse, and I think the case could be made that we were warned and did nothing. That said, I'm not sure where the way out is on this. Our legal guys should review at least."
and this:
“It’s not something I prepared for, or ever thought I would have to be prepared for,” he is widely quoted as saying after Kumaritashvili’s death.
And in his book about the Vancouver Olympics, which goes on sale Feb 11, Furlong writes: "Never in our wildest dreams did we imagine the death of an athlete on Opening Day.”
The fact that they all blamed the dead guy a day after his death is still pretty piss poor imo: