Olympic Tragedy

randallscott35 · #1 02-12-2010, 03:35 PM

Holy ****.

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

randallscott35 · #2 02-12-2010, 03:36 PM

Warning graphic guys

timmgirvan · #3 02-12-2010, 04:31 PM

thank God it was quick!

skippy3481 · #4 02-12-2010, 05:27 PM

Slow the f****** track down. How many people have to get injured before they realize this is too fast. With very little time for these minor countries to get acclimated they are setting themselves up for more of this. No one cares if they go 70 or 90 mph at the bottom. This death was senseless

MaTH716 · #5 02-12-2010, 05:55 PM

OMG, just saw the video on another site. That was one of the worst things I have ever seen.

R.I.P.

randallscott35 · #6 02-12-2010, 05:57 PM

You would really think those poles would be padded, not that it may have mattered going that fast. I pray this dude felt nothing.

MaTH716 · #7 02-12-2010, 06:02 PM

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Originally Posted by randallscott35

You would really think those poles would be padded, not that it may have mattered going that fast. I pray this dude felt nothing.

Can't imagine all the padding in the world would have helped that poor fellow.

timmgirvan · #8 02-12-2010, 06:09 PM

Arent they usually strapped into those sleds?

MaTH716 · #9 02-12-2010, 06:13 PM

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Originally Posted by timmgirvan

Arent they usually strapped into those sleds?

No

timmgirvan · #10 02-12-2010, 06:20 PM

Not to belabor the point, but that's just NUTS! RIP!

ddthetide · #11 02-12-2010, 06:29 PM

just saw the replay. that was tough. they need to slow that track down. it's way to fast. there was 2 crashes earlier but farther away from the finishline.
i watched several sledding trials in the last month and not watched anything that fast.

Bigsmc · #12 02-12-2010, 06:51 PM

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Originally Posted by randallscott35

You would really think those poles would be padded, not that it may have mattered going that fast. I pray this dude felt nothing.

Padding? What kind of design is that with those steel H-Beams so close to the track? If I designed that thing, I don't think I could live with myself. I am sure they are there to support a roof, but it is an outside sport, the roof is only there for the comfort of photogs or workers. F them, lose the roof. It's too late for that though.

If someone leaves that track, they should hit netting or padding (like high jumpers or pole vaulters), not steel.

RIP

my miss storm cat · #13 02-12-2010, 07:07 PM

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Originally Posted by randallscott35

I pray this dude felt nothing.

Yeah really.

Wow, very sad.

No way can I watch the video or would I want to. I accidentally saw one photo... that was bad enough.

Just awful, poor guy.

#14 02-12-2010, 08:25 PM

NBC opened the broadcast by showing it 3 times. Just ridiculous and classless.

my miss storm cat · #15 02-12-2010, 08:30 PM

Are you serious?

Hasn't started out here... I think I'll just skip the beginning.

dellinger63 · #16 02-12-2010, 08:46 PM

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Originally Posted by Coach Pants

NBC opened the broadcast by showing it 3 times. Just ridiculous and classless.

just spit up my Pepsi India?

ddthetide · #17 02-12-2010, 09:02 PM

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Originally Posted by dellinger63

just spit up my Pepsi India?

6/or 8 north african countries?

dellinger63 · #18 02-12-2010, 09:05 PM

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Originally Posted by ddthetide

6/or 8 north african countries?

Global Warming?

Riot · #19 02-12-2010, 09:17 PM

I want Doc ICU to weigh in ... I doubt this poor man had a chance in hell, but the first thing I noticed - in the picture of the poor guy laying there obviously dead - is that all they have is a lousy ambu bag on room air and oropharyngeal airway. I can't tell if the blood is from his ear, mouth, nose.

The Olympics, and nobody has a freaking' laryngoscope and ET tube to provide an airway? Are emergency crews prevented from intubating in the face of a possible neck fracture?

A.

B.

C.

dellinger63 · #20 02-12-2010, 09:21 PM

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Originally Posted by Riot

I want Doc ICU to weigh in ... I doubt this poor man had a chance in hell, but the first thing I noticed - in the picture of the poor guy laying there obviously dead - is that all they have is a lousy ambu bag on room air and oropharyngeal airway. I can't tell if the blood is from his ear, mouth, nose.

The Olympics, and nobody has a freaking' laryngoscope and ET tube to provide an airway? Are emergency crews prevented from intubating in the face of a possible neck fracture?

A.

B.

C.

Canadian Medicine you know our model for Obamacare