LegendofCoop 17,437 Posted February 13, 2010 Author Share Posted February 13, 2010 You'd need to be off your fucking nut to do that in the first place! Poor guy. At least he went doing the thing he enjoyed most. Crashing into a Steel girder at 88 miles per hour??? 88 miles per hour you say? I'm claiming an assist for that post mate....think I set you up nicely! @ Wullie.....penny finally dropped...Luger/pistol....got it at last! Can't believe they are going ahead with the event. I'd be fucking pulling out if I was in it. How they say that the track isn't dangerous is beyond me! I just hope that no one else 'over compensates' that bend! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
OdioTutti 9 Posted February 13, 2010 Share Posted February 13, 2010 Fuckin' shame. Apparently he lifted his head as he was going round and they reckon he got a fright because of the speed of the track. Poor guy. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimfanciesthedude 24,714 Posted February 13, 2010 Share Posted February 13, 2010 You'd need to be off your fucking nut to do that in the first place! Poor guy. At least he went doing the thing he enjoyed most. Crashing into a Steel girder at 88 miles per hour??? 88 miles per hour you say? ah so he isnt dead then, just that half his body went back to 1955 (hope i got the year right, cant be arsed googling it lol) Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimfanciesthedude 24,714 Posted February 13, 2010 Share Posted February 13, 2010 the poor guy looked nervous at the start and it went downhill quickly from there Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TunnyLoyal 1,136 Posted February 13, 2010 Share Posted February 13, 2010 Fuck that! Poor guy. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dpRFC1 3 Posted February 13, 2010 Share Posted February 13, 2010 RIP Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimfanciesthedude 24,714 Posted February 13, 2010 Share Posted February 13, 2010 last time a pole got hit that hard the germans were on the fucking rampage Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
TunnyLoyal 1,136 Posted February 13, 2010 Share Posted February 13, 2010 last time a pole got hit that hard the germans were on the fucking rampage ahhahaha :lol: Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blue Stars Bearette 1 Posted February 13, 2010 Share Posted February 13, 2010 this track is getting well slated poor kid...comes to the Olympics only to lose his life VANCOUVER, British Columbia -- So this is what the Olympics have become, a dateline for a death sport. It wasn't enough for organizers to build a safe, practical sliding track on Blackcomb Mountain in Whistler. No, they had to design a $105 million monster that turned the luge into a joyride to hell, with wicked turns, a 152-meter drop -- the world's longest -- and a surface so rapid that it lured racers to approach 95 mph. Too fast. Too dangerous. And too deadly for a mere sled -- basically, a missile upon which a human being slides face-up and feet-first, vulnerable to his immediate demise. All week, there have been crashes on the course, more than a dozen in total, one that left a Romanian athlete unconscious for a brief time. And all week, not a soul from the International Olympic Committee, the International Luge Federation or the Vancouver organizing committee expressed concerns about the wipeouts. Nevermind that one racer had described the 13th curve as the "50-50 Curve,'' based on the odds of a crash. Nevermind that 15 months ago, when the sport's elite racers familiarized themselves with the Whistler Sliding Center, athletes suffered 73 crashes during training runs. Nevermind that as recently as Thursday, U.S. luger Christian Niccum compared ramming into the ice at 90 mph to being on fire, saying, "I just wanted to rip off my suit, 'I'm on fire. I'm on fire.' '' And nevermind that on the same day, Australian luger Hannah Campbell-Pegg voiced an ominous tone and a cry for help. "I think they are pushing it a little too much. To what extent are we just little lemmings that they just throw down a track and we're crash-test dummies?'' she said. "I mean, this is our lives." For Nodar Kumaritashvili, a 21-year-old luger from the former Soviet republic of Georgia, this would be his death. In an accident so grisly and horrific that Canadian TV stations suggested viewers turn away, the young athlete died shortly after flying too fast through the 50-50 Curve, losing control on the final 270-degree turn, hurdling projectile-like over an icy wall and slamming into an unpadded -- yes, unpadded -- steel pole. A rescue crew tried to revive him trackside by pumping his chest and giving mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, but there was no hope. Kumaritashvili was dead, a victim of a sport gone mad and organizers who weren't paying enough attention. http://olympics.fanhouse.com/2010/02/12/a-...-on-olympics%2F Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott-RFC 308 Posted February 13, 2010 Share Posted February 13, 2010 That videos been removed, anyone know where else Ill find it? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scott-RFC 308 Posted February 13, 2010 Share Posted February 13, 2010 http://www.olympicswinter2010.com/ Its on there Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DinViesel 399 Posted February 13, 2010 Share Posted February 13, 2010 You win some, you luge some. RIP. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
markhateleyssuitjacket 0 Posted February 13, 2010 Share Posted February 13, 2010 You'd need to be off your fucking nut to do that in the first place! Poor guy. At least he went doing the thing he enjoyed most. Crashing into a Steel girder at 88 miles per hour??? 88 miles per hour you say? GREAT SCOTT Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LegendofCoop 17,437 Posted February 15, 2010 Author Share Posted February 15, 2010 the poor guy looked nervous at the start and it went downhill quickly from there last time a pole got hit that hard the germans were on the fucking rampage Tutt tutt...and to think I edited my OP as well! S'pose these things can be undone! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
fourfourtwo 1,989 Posted February 16, 2010 Share Posted February 16, 2010 tragic news RIP Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
WilliamFyfe 1,438 Posted February 17, 2010 Share Posted February 17, 2010 <a href="http://www.olympicswinter2010.com/" target="_blank">http://www.olympicswinter2010.com/</a>Its on thereThat's terrible, no safety wall or anything in-front of those pillars!RIP to both men Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dado1 23 Posted February 18, 2010 Share Posted February 18, 2010 <a href="http://www.olympicswinter2010.com/" target="_blank">http://www.olympicswinter2010.com/</a>Its on thereThat's terrible, no safety wall or anything in-front of those pillars!RIP to both menchaos reigns at the winter olympics.after the death in the luge,the irish bobsleigh team are refusing to compete until the course is gritted Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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