RIP Georgian Luger Dude

[cyrus buelton]

yup...

That is what I figured, but amazing considering the "ski" or whatever you call the point of contact on the track is one continuous piece.

Must be lots of flex in the material of the sled.

[derby]

That is what I figured, but amazing considering the "ski" or whatever you call the point of contact on the track is one continuous piece.

Must be lots of flex in the material of the sled.

they're called "runners..."

and yes, it's amazing... 

[cyrus buelton]

they're called "runners..."

and yes, it's amazing... 

You seem to know a lot about the louge.

What is the body made out of?

[Kopfjäger]

What is the body made out of?

The Luge is made of fiberglass.

They cost around $1k

[ducpainter]

You seem to know a lot about the louge.

What is the body made out of?

perhaps you're not familiar with derby...

he knows everything.

[Oldfisti]

Around here we don't google things, we derby them.

[Triple J]

Tragic accident.  RIP.

Not to diminish the tragedy, but classic over reaction IMO. The wall would have been sufficient to improve safety. Flying out of the course was a freak accident...I've never seen it before (not that I watch every single event though). Moving the men's start 600 feet down the track, losing about 90 feet of vertical drop, sucks. It made the men's luge event somewhat boring. Like I said in the other thread...if they didn't nail the start their run was over. With the old configuration time could be made up in the lower section if you were 15 hundreths off or so at the start.

They were saying there had been over 5,000 runs on the course without serious injury. The course is for elite athletes...but not inherently dangerous IMO. Even the Georgian athlete said in an interview before his crash that he didn't think the course was too dangerous.

Luge, Bobsled, & Skeleton are all just dangerous. This was the second time a luge competitor was killed in practice right before the olympics.

[cyrus buelton]

The Luge is made of fiberglass.

They cost around $1k

That's pretty inexpensive............not saying a grand is a little bit of money, but for something like this....


That is about the same cost as a set of make the beast with two backsing skis and boots anymore, actually probably less.

[cyrus buelton]

Tragic accident.  RIP.

Not to diminish the tragedy, but classic over reaction IMO. The wall would have been sufficient to improve safety. Flying out of the course was a freak accident...I've never seen it before (not that I watch every single event though). Moving the men's start 600 feet down the track, losing about 90 feet of vertical drop, sucks. It made the men's luge event somewhat boring. Like I said in the other thread...if they didn't nail the start their run was over. With the old configuration time could be made up in the lower section if you were 15 hundreths off or so at the start.

They were saying there had been over 5,000 runs on the course without serious injury. The course is for elite athletes...but not inherently dangerous IMO. Even the Georgian athlete said in an interview before his crash that he didn't think the course was too dangerous.

Luge, Bobsled, & Skeleton are all just dangerous. This was the second time a luge competitor was killed in practice right before the olympics.

I agree with you.


It was ruled that the accident lied on the shoulders of the luger.

He came out of the previous corner wrong and that is what caused him to crash.

Freak accident and tragic.

Too young to leave the world, but risk is there when you are competing sports like this.

[mitt]

I was wondering if changing the track w/o a lot of practice time was actually more dangerous than keeping the original configuration and adding the fence?

We all know, you can die at 50mph just as easy as 90mph.  They were still hitting high 80's.   They rely on approaches 3 or 4 turns ahead of time for the right speed and line, and the competitors last night had to do that at 100% with little practice.


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