Quote:
Originally Posted by Zayne E.
Wow...can you say "padding" and/or "catch fence?" Let's spend millions on an opening ceremony but fuck the few grand it might have taken to make that course a little safer...at least something to give the athletes a sporting chance. I wonder how many coaches and Olympians said, "you know...if someone wipes out in there they're going to be killed" before this happened?
|
I agree, safety netting would have been a cheap and effective way of preventing this tragedy. Instead, they decided this morning to try and prevent future accidents by "raising that section of wall a bit higher".... Brilliant