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Title: Canada's lust for glory is to blame for this senseless tragedy
Category: Sports
Posted By: bootlegga
Date: 2010-02-16 06:14:23
Canadian

[Unicornlord]

Wow, Martin you really are a pain in the backside. Accidents happen, if they did not think it was safe to use then they as an entity should have backed away but they did not. Canada is not to blame for an accident. Sometimes bad things happen to good people. Get off your high horse.

[gonavy47]

Geez Martin, you really are an idiot. Just what is your agenda? Or are you against everything in general? Sounds like it. But please go on writing your drivel. I'm sure you're the most popular writer among anarchists and the fringe element.

[Yogi]

competitive disadvantage; for the less talented it is potentially fatal.

By the time one gets to the starting gate of the luge, or any other venue for that matter, if they are 'less talented', they might want to reconsider making the run.

with the luge, as in all venues, ALL athletes face the exact same conditions, and do so of their own volition!

Of course some of the athletes are 'less talented'. That's why some of them come in 5th, or 11th,or 23rd!

[N_Fiddledog]

So, what's the allegation here? That Canada didn't allow the athletes from other countries to practice, so as a result they were unprepared, and the Georgian luger died, right?

But wait a freakin minute. The Georgian guy died on a practice run! It was before the event even started.

[sandorski]

I feel badly for the family of the Georgian Luger. It seems those coining Conspiracies of this tragedy don't.

[Alta_redneck]

I've noticed that everyone thats taking a shot at us, doesn't mention the 40 training runs over the last year, that every competitor was given. But then that would have put a damper on the story.

[QBall]

$1:

Kumaritashvili, a 21-year-old luge slider of limited experience, died because he was making only his 26th practice run on a dauntingly fast track that, it transpired, was technically defective.

If it happened on the first run then Martin would have a point, but after 25 runs the guy should know what the track is all about and where the danger areas are. Sorry, not buying it.

[ttruscott]

No one else died...

Did anyone else even leave the track?

Suddenly it's 'Bash Canada Day' again.

[Hyack]

Driver error led to death: Staudinger

Probe: track didn’t cause luger’s death

Lugers say modified Whistler track is too slow

[sandorski]

ttruscott ttruscott:

No one else died...

Did anyone else even leave the track?

Suddenly it's 'Bash Canada Day' again.

On another Forum people were going on and on about how Canada killed the Luger as we knew the track was deadly...yadda yadda ya. Then some Poster posts, "If the track is so dangerous, it's amazing Canada even has a Luge team".

I chuckled.

[Lemmy]

Too bad that the tragedy of this kid's death has been turned into conspiracy theory and finger-pointing circus. This represents a tremendous lack of sportsmanship and smears a disgraceful patch on the memory of this young athlete.

[Choban]

If anyone is to blame it's the IOC for approving a dangerous track.

[BartSimpson]

The track did not cause the luger's death, inertia did.

[Nuggie77]

If this idiot would have got his facts straight, perhaps I could take him serious.