Uncategorized Olympics: A controversy in the Luge

Olympics: A controversy in the Luge

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Changes were definitely need at the Luge track after the traffic accident on Friday that claimed the life of Nodar Kumaritashvili. There a lot of allegation floating around and apparently the Candians are fuming over their “loss” of home ice advantage. Since when did hosting the Olympics give the hosting country to tailor the venues to provide an advantage for their own athletes. It goes against everything the Olympic spirit stands for. It’s such a shame that it has come to this. Don’t you think?

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4 thoughts on “Olympics: A controversy in the Luge”

  1. Good Morning from Omaha,

    the olympic officials first blamed the athlete for his own death on the luge track. Now there tune seems to have changed.

    It seems that all the talk before the Oly’s was that the luge track was the fastest ever. It was constructed in ’07 and the canucks were very stingy about allowing others to use their track.

    As I said previously, only the top 12 lugers in the world had the ability to handle such a run.

    Nodar was something like 44th best. If the track was fine they would not have raised the wall on the 16th turn and made the men lugers start at the womens starting post.

    That is almost an admittance of the problems and yet with all the changes the men, running on the shortened track, are still hitting speeds between 89 and 91 mph.

    I saw where the women that ride the luge are now complaining that there revised starting point doesn’t make the track enough fun.

    Evidently they need to drug test for overdoses of adrenaline .

    If putting your body on a sled and going down an icy track at 90 mph is the only way to put a thrill into your life then we must lead pretty hallow lives.

    I know they are young, I understand that their lives have just started and that they feel invincible but with age come wisdom, and sometimes age just shows up by itself.

    Strive for excellence, nothing but your best.

    Gene

  2. From sportspickle.com:

    In a stroke of good luck for you and your region, your local newspaper columnist is a renowned expert in a very narrow field: luge track architecture. His latest column ripped the design of the Whistler luge track at the Vancouver Olympics in the wake of the death of a competitor, calling it “an obvious accident waiting to happen” and demanding that the track designer be banned from the sport for several flaws in the layout, listing each in detail. The news comes as somewhat of a surprise considering earlier this week in his Olympic preview column he called luge “a fun, icy adventure I welcome re-discovering every four years.”

  3. GMFO,

    I try to be good every time I write. It must be like doing comics, sometimes you draw a masterpiece and sometimes the only ideas that come are not good.

    My wife says I should do more SELF editing.

    someday I am going to listen to her, but its been almost 32 years, so why start now?

    (she is usually right anyway)

    Gene

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