bad luge accident in whistler
 

going approx 150km/hr

https://youtube.com/watch?v=_UrTF5CsgiI

only 21 years old

This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by International Olympic Committee.

damn, took it down already :mad:

he just passed away, not a good way to start the games

Damn that sucks.

yes i saw it, absolutely fucking horrible. He basically came around a corner at 144 kph and flew out of the track straight into a metal piller, backwards. His back must have instantly broken as it happened.

I have tickets to go watch the luge....after seeing that I may try and sell them.

reupped.



see how long this one lasts.

that must have fucking hurt. :(

that's fucking insane

Dam ........

horrible, gave me chills.

Man luge is a stupid fucking sport, lol. Same with bobsled, who the fuck gets into bobsledding and how?

holy shit!

RIP

insane...

How hard could it be to just enclose the entire luge course in a big tube. Would prevent that kind of shit at least.

damn its down again

Taken down. Gone just this second. Watched it a few times, though. Tragic video. :(

Cant believe this is not all over the news yet

if he had a name you could pronounce and came from a country that mattered, cnn would be screaming it right now. :1orglaugh

wow, crazy fast

I don't think that's true. Olympics are an international event, with international importance.

I don't know why those poles wouldn't have been padded. Seems like a messed up oversight.

2nd video taken down already.. bah.

RIP

Yeah still can't see the video. I'm sure it's a pretty crazy crash
RIP

Wait.... so all the other lugers have padding but not the Polish lugers? Isn't that discriminatory?

video is here

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/0..._n_460474.html

and i agree, seems like they would take every safety precaution possible, its not like a sled has never come off the track?

Don't fool yourself, noone really cares. All that matters in each country is that their prospective medal winners bring home the gold. Nothing else means shit.

also blocked :(

May he rest in peace.....

Damn, he was flying

Not to be mean, but isn't that kinda dumb to be doing? Humans do some retarded things then its considered some tragedy when something like this happens.. I dont know.. crazy video though.

oh fuck :Oh crap

Swear he was dead as soon as he hit that pillar, just a wipe out and a ping and no movement, sad :(

http://www.ctvolympics.ca/luge/news/newsid=39315.html#georgian+luger+dead+after+traini ng+crash+afp

that's terrible :( Why wasn't there nets or something to hold them away from those pillars??

They are trying to figure out a way to slow them down.that's the fastest track ever and too dangerous but they know what they are getting into.,hopefully that will be the only death on that track

Wow that was brutal

My friends just went there to watch the luge. This is fucked up.

They know what they are getting into. Very sad indeed but he died from doing what he lived for and loved.

RIP

I do not know who designed the course but there have been a lot of complaints and now a death! Here he is going 140+ kph caught in a still frame. So sad! R.I.P.

http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/afp/dv_t....rp350x350.jpg

2 accidents before that one, the last one being the defending champion from the last winter games go

insane.