Well the track is diferent - it's encapsulated - the riders are suppose to stay inside no matter what. It's a cyntrifical force thing - design is everything. Someone, some geek engineer, made a huge math mistake. Everyone has been crashing on this course, he's not the only one = engineering problem. There is always a scapegoat. It's all fun & games now but mark my words - some nerd is gonna take the blame and he doesn't even know it yet.

to all the people in this thread who are defending the track read the Globe and Mail article, people right inside the sport, not outsiders, have had serious concerns about the track's design and speed and the potential for disaster. The track for the next winter Olympics is going to be 20 km/sec SLOWER than this track in Whistler - they aren't do that for no reason.

It's also true that these are very dangerous sports, this isn't the first death and won't be the last.

Padding :1orglaugh

Netting would work in some situations but not in his situation - the pole got him, netting wouldn't have helped him.

Track designer/architects need to design a track where there aren't poles above the track. seem logical to me and doable.

I'm sure the IOC is praying that there's not another serious crash or god forbid another death or these games will go down as a horror show.

I told you someone would burn: "Shame on the Olympics"

http://olympics.fanhouse.com/2010/02...on-olympics%2F

He did something really dangerous and died. Boo hoo.

RIP Nodar Kumaritashvili.

i have 5 tickets for tonight's luge. not sure if it will go as planned or be delayed. rip.

Wow, I'm pretty surprised that CTV is showing that video...

Guys are starting from the Women starting point this morning. Looks like they cut off trun 1 and turn 2.

If they decided to do this, it is kind of admitting that the original layout for men's luge was to dangerous and it took 1 death to get them to do something....

The CBC this morning said this was the first death in Luge since the 1970's. So it looks dangerous, but is actually very controlled.

Well he never saw it comin...

and on a side note, is the IOC working overtime to try and cover this shit up.. every video I click on everywhere is being removed "Due to Copyright Violations", which is a load of shit.

total load of shit.

Saw it on tv,but what is strange i saw crash on news annoucment,but while news started there was no more that video.

they do that with any olympic video

That CLUNK noise when the poor guy hits the steel post shoots shivers down my spine. Ugh...

By the way - they did exactly what I said needed to be done - they covered the beams and made it one huge wall. I shoulda been an engineer.

it was awesome. i mean, seriously awesome.

coolest shit i've ever seen. wow.

:1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

Im not gonna watch.. that sucks

Yea that was fucking brutal. He was hauling ass. Poor guy.

100 tragic Olympic deaths

Saw it on TV. Man died from accident. Very unfortunate.

to clarify, i mean last night. so fast, just crazy. i've got pics and vid, will post later.

Made a perfect pitch.

Official video link : http://www.ctvolympics.ca/video/inde...46&cid=rss

Sad news... Incredible these poles were not protected or padded.... :(

you actually have a good point

i think its incredible that the engineers who make these tracks and physicists or whoever the fuck doesn't calculate slides like this as a possibility and take measures to ensure it can't happen... it's just numbers and some common sense you'd think