Georgian athlete dies in olympic training

[tcco94]

This was really sad. As for the video, I was not surprised it was released because there are a lot of people that would want to see it, but I was surprised to see it on TV. It's all about ratings as far as that goes, but it looks like it hurt them because last night they announced that they will not show it again on TV.

8-)

I think your wrong. They wont show the video anymore in respect now that he has passed away. You never show a video of someones death. The fact that he was in the hospital on life support and for them to play the video (which is when they did) is just stupid too. I dont think it hurt their views though. I mean realisticly if anyone was to say "Hey did you watch the Olympics last night?"..."No I dont watch them anymore because they played the video of the luge accident, so im not going to watch anymore events" would be pretty funny and stupid. 

[tcco94]

What makes the story even more sad...he called his Dad the day before saying he was scared of the track, one of the turns scared him. His dad told him he should put his feet down on the ice to slow him down on that turn, but that once he started down the track that he would finish because he knows his son is brave.

http://www.aolnews.com/article/father-n ... k/19358415

[B-Valvs]

This was really sad. As for the video, I was not surprised it was released because there are a lot of people that would want to see it, but I was surprised to see it on TV. It's all about ratings as far as that goes, but it looks like it hurt them because last night they announced that they will not show it again on TV.

8-)

I think your wrong. They wont show the video anymore in respect now that he has passed away. You never show a video of someones death. The fact that he was in the hospital on life support and for them to play the video (which is when they did) is just stupid too. I dont think it hurt their views though. I mean realisticly if anyone was to say "Hey did you watch the Olympics last night?"..."No I dont watch them anymore because they played the video of the luge accident, so im not going to watch anymore events" would be pretty funny and stupid.

[tcco94]

This was really sad. As for the video, I was not surprised it was released because there are a lot of people that would want to see it, but I was surprised to see it on TV. It's all about ratings as far as that goes, but it looks like it hurt them because last night they announced that they will not show it again on TV.

8-)

I think your wrong. They wont show the video anymore in respect now that he has passed away. You never show a video of someones death. The fact that he was in the hospital on life support and for them to play the video (which is when they did) is just stupid too. I dont think it hurt their views though. I mean realisticly if anyone was to say "Hey did you watch the Olympics last night?"..."No I dont watch them anymore because they played the video of the luge accident, so im not going to watch anymore events" would be pretty funny and stupid.

[Fozzer]

This particular "Sport", to me, always appears to be a way of attempting high-speed suicide in a spectacular fashion!

Far too dangerous for my liking.... ...!

Paul.

[machineman9]

[quote]They're still breaking 90mph

[Craig.]

[quote][quote]They're still breaking 90mph

[machineman9]

[quote] This is why the Winter olympics will always be my prefered choice.
It's a sad accident no doubt, Its a shame they took the actions they did to reduce the speed rather than just fix the problem.

[Craig.]

the thing is the majority of the riders didn't want the start changed. It was a knee jerk reaction to what happend.