I wouldn't be surprised if the course is either changed, or some form of restriction or cancellation put in. Its one of if not the most dangerous courses in the world. Yes it's about a challenge considering, but there are limits.

Steve M wrote on Feb 12^th, 2010 at 4:48pm:

I hear they are going to add golf.  Joe Timbuktu v. Tiger Woods.  How exciting.

specter177 wrote on Feb 12^th, 2010 at 11:40pm:

This wasn't confined to the US. The modern Olympic Games was restricted to amateurs until fairly recently. Some countries regularly "bent" the rules in order to win & the whole Olympic ideal went out of the window.

http://www.nzhistory.net.nz/media/photo/amateur-ideals-and-olympic-realities
"Sportspeople from the Communist countries which competed at the Olympics from 1952 were in effect full-time athletes, despite being nominally students, soldiers or otherwise employed. Western Europeans – and New Zealanders – forced to train in their spare time resented the success of the Soviets and East Germans. For their part, many American sporting stars received lucrative college scholarships."

In 1986 the IOC voted to allow professionals to compete in the Olympics. In the same year it was decided to separate the Summer & Winter Games and hold them on alternating even-numbered years. The first separate Winter Olympics was held in 1994 at Lillehammer, Norway.

I found this extremely sad.  Rest in peace warrior, you died doing what you loved, representing your country, giving everything you had.  A split second...man 

a1 wrote on Feb 14^th, 2010 at 12:37pm:

+1
Well said.

Anyone following the events will know that the men are launching off from the women's start position which hopes to lower the overall speed by something like 10kph over the track.

A very nasty accident which seems doesn't seem to be down to the track - that part of the track was exposed, but they probably didn't see it as a high risk area. The corners have better guards on them. The only solution to this I can see is putting a bubble over the entire track, but I don't think they will. There were some other close calls yesterday where a few people hit the top of the long corner. Some people blame those new collisions due to the change in the start position. The athletes are used to memorising the track and suddenly their speed has been completely changed making them sometimes unstable.


Sad, but they died doing what they loved and they died doing it for their country.

Kumaritashvili was scared of the track:

http://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/vancouver/blog/fourth_place_medal/post/Luger-wh...

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Even if he made a mistake (probably a combo of both), this shouldn't have been a fatal accident. Unfortunately this could have been prevented by something as simple as a plywood wall, which is in place now.