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Very sad news about the Luge death of Georgian slider sadface

Just 21 years old.

 

Originally Posted By: Official Statement
The Coroners Service of British Columbia, responsible for the investigation of all sudden deaths, together with the RCMP, concluded their on-scene investigations on the track and transferred the decision to FIL when the track can be re-opened. The FIL, through its technical officials, further investigated into the cause of this tragic incident. Based on a physical inspection of the track and a thorough review of the tapes they have concluded the following:

 

It appears after a routine run, the athlete came late out of curve 15 and did not compensate properly to make correct entrance into curve 16. This resulted in a late entrance into curve 16 and although the athlete worked to correct the problem he eventually lost control of the sled resulting in the tragic accident. The technical officials of the FIL were able to retrace the path of the athlete and concluded there was no indication that the accident was caused by deficiencies in the track.

 

Based on these findings the race director, in consultation with the FIL, made the decision to reopen the track following a raising of the walls at the exit of curve 16 and a change in the ice profile. This was done as a preventative measure, in order to avoid that such an extremely exceptional accident could occur again.

 

The FIL will resume men´s training Saturday morning with two full training runs prior to the competition taking place as scheduled at 17h00.

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Good to see that ...

- the Georgian team marched, with black armbands.

- the Australian team also had black armbands (not too many others did, that I saw.)

- the ceremony was dedicated to his memory.

 

RIP! sadface

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Not sure.

The 4th of the prongs that came up to carry the flame up to the cauldron did not rise - one of the 4 people lighting had to stand there and hold their torch aloft. It was still an impressive opening ceremony though. Some of the effects were awesome.

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shouldn't have happened. Was reading the news when it came up.

 

Fault lies squarely at the Canadian authorites and the IOC - they have known of the dangers of this course for the last few years yet nothing happened. Having seen the video (something I DO NOT recommend) - I hope that the course designers face a thoroughly investigation into:

 

a) why was the course allowed to be used even though reports of it's danger were reported way back in '08?

B) why was there no protection around the metal pillars he hit?

c) if this had been computer tested as stated?

d) why was there a ban on other countries competing on it from dec 09?

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Originally Posted By: Black Mountain
Canada takes the silver in women's moguls! Where was Aiko?


No spoilers from me!

The Canadian silver winner looked completely gutted. She could have given the three thousand people standing round in the rain for her a bit more of a wave. You know, the Olympic spirit. Bung the drum!

As for the Japanese coverage, whoever thought Arakawa Shizuka would be good on tv wants shooting. What a brick!
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poor Aiko chan - she is on the telly now visablly upset -she was one of the real medal hopefuls for japan as far as I can gather.

 

On another not not sure if the topic about this snowboarder who was forced not to attend the opening ceremony is commented on - (skimmed but didn`t see

this vid of it has an unbelieveble 1 million hits !

 

 

 

 

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Hey, bb, for those of us who don't read/comprehend nihongo (at least not at that speed) what is the go? Why were they not allowed to attend the opening? Was it a Japan team decision or a IOC decision?

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