On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 4:57 PM, Jay Lewis <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 2/14/2010 3:29 PM, PGage wrote: > > The point from many >> athletes and observers has been that there is a point at which the >> technology allows a track faster than what the human brain and body can >> handle. When we reach that point (and it may be that we have) >> > > I respectfully disagree. > > Hundreds/Dozens of people went down the track with no problems at all. > Tourists could be strapped to a pro (ala a tandem skydive) for $200 and > those people were hitting 150kph. > > I feel awful for this man, his family and respect the courage of his > countrymen to be in the parade of athletes. However, this track was faster > than *HIS* brain/body could handle, not all of the others who were incident > free. > > A track was designed for top speeds of 160+kph and I would lay blame with > the officials for not opening the track up for practice sooner. > Yet, NBC reported that the top slider in the world also wiped out in practice, and most of the best sliders in the world expressed the view that the track was just too fast - and this was before the fatal accident. They can not make a track that is so challenging that the kinds of mistakes in judgment and execution that regularly occur in the sport have a significant probability of ending in serious injury. In a different way, the NFL has been avoiding this problem for years (and may just finally beginning to deal with it now). The NBC guys said this afternoon that even with the changes to the track that have slowed it significantly, this is still the fastest luge track in the history of the Olympics. -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
