Georgian Luger Dies

[Four Kalitta]

Does anyone know who the guy was being interviewed?

His name is John Morgan & he is an NBC reporter.

 

[Toejam]

I'm still not sure how she got ahold of the remote.

LMAO!!!!!

 

[yoda]

Minick is right

Being from Vancouver, a life long sports enthusiest, and heavily involved in Winter sport for a couple decades (owned ski shops and hosted downhill ski races which even involved world cup skiers) and being involved in the sport we all love a couple (Drag Racing) a few things are prominent here.

We all know that Drag racing reacts to tragedies usually after the fact. Ie Darrell Russell and the changes, Eric Medlen and the changes after. Scott Kalitta the same
Why would this sport (Luge) be any different.

The track is fast and technical perhaps more so that they anticipated. In hindsight should there have been a few other things done?... Of course.

The changes they have made this morning are: They shortened the track (To the womans start), they added padding to the beams, and they raised the walls up at the finish.
This is an extreme sport, and all the riders know the risks.
No one wants this to happen of course and if the organizers and the architects could have had forsight into this tragedy they would have made changes earlier. Every sport is the same, improvements to safety are made after tragedies.
Most Luge tracks have a covered area near or at the finish, so most have posts and beams in that postiion.

Hopefully they all have learned from this and hopefully it never happens again

Dean,
In the olympic city and taking in many events

I just had almost the exact conversation with Emmett last night- he couldn't get his head wrapped around why someone had to die before any changes to make it safer were made.

It's really hard to explain hindsight to a 13 year old.

But it gave him a new appreciation as to why we walk THE ENTIRE TRACK the morning before he races the Jr.