Subject: 2010 Vancouver Olympic Winter Games

Yeah, but you have got a Canadian flag at your name, I have a Dutch one ;)

Tomorrow will be a busy day indeed :)

Poor guy... RIP

nice fireworks!

RIP

Without those pillars, the roof would come down.
So they are quite useful.

Oh, please. We're in 2010. It would be perfeclty possible to build the piste without those pillars or in a different way.
I mean, going out of the piste at 140 Km/h doesn't leave many chances to survive even in the most safety one of the world. But only a maniac could make a project with several pillars outside the most dangerous turn of the piste.

It would be perfeclty possible to build the piste without those pillars or in a different way.

Or at least put some mats around the pillars..

exactly, i think they will do that right now, but its already to late :S

It was on a part of the track no 1 went out before. Parts of the track they can fly out are protected by overhanging walls so they always stay inside the track.
But they are vulnerable on that little sledge, and it is a dangerous track for Luge, they all know that. It's not curling .. The only way to make this extreem sport save is to ban it, if not, there is always a change someone dies.

hardly what the olympic games have begun, and already we have a tragic event. pity, especially since the georgian gone at such a young age :(

RIP
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all loss of life is tragic RIP

:(

There were some injuries at that point before... but nobody has flied out from the track.

the organisers should fit safety netting on the track , im amazed something so simple hasnt been used in the past

Agree

georgia public luger; Nodar Kumaritashvili died when he was training,

god rest his soul!

que tragedia lo del jugadoe muerto :(:(:(

God rest you in peace Nodar Kumaritashvili...

Approximately two more hours and my favourite athlete outside Estonia, Magdalena Neuner, goes on track ;)

Yes, it`s sad what happened, but life goes on...what I mean, don`t change it into RIP topic.

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