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 Post subject: Luger Killed on Practice run
PostPosted: Sat Feb 13, 2010 5:42 am 
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Today at 10:40ish am, a luger Nodar Kumaritashvili was killed after losing control of his sled and hitting a pole at 140 km/h.

http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-olympics-luge-death13-2010feb13,0,4446237.story


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PostPosted: Sat Feb 13, 2010 5:51 am 
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i thought this was staged?

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PostPosted: Sat Feb 13, 2010 5:55 am 
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RIP :(

did anyone see the ceremony an hour ago, i feel embarrassed to be a Canadian after watching the torch lighting fail, and the truck carrying 99 had tape all over the front, wtf?! not a good openning so far :(

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A hydraulic failure makes you embarrassed to be a Canadian?


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i thought this was staged?

Highly unlikely, I seen the clip of him hitting the pole and whatnot on the news.


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PostPosted: Sat Feb 13, 2010 6:03 am 
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A hydraulic failure makes you embarrassed to be a Canadian?


i got home late and that was where i started so all i seen was failure. heard the rest was good, but that hydraulic failure just made me facepalm.

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I know eventually someone is gonna ask, so here is the video. Watch at your own risk. Just watching the video makes me sick seeing such a flawed track, and how it should of never happened.
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Flawed track?

Looks like he just farked up the corner.

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It's like watching a thriller movie...

It starts off smooth, then gets faster as anxiety rises then suddenly BAM! =S

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Should I feel bad for laughing a bit.... :slap:

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Should I feel bad for laughing a bit.... :slap:
Well, of course you should!

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Should I feel bad for laughing a bit.... :slap:

Well obviously you have some issues....

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PostPosted: Sat Feb 13, 2010 11:17 am 
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Any working links to the video anymore?

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Pretty tragic, I guess it was human error on his side, but I wonder why those pillars were not padded or something.

Working video (for now) http://d0x.com/nodar-kumaritashvili-cra ... ining.html


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 Post subject: Re: Luger Killed on Practice run
PostPosted: Sat Feb 13, 2010 7:41 pm 
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brutal, how is it flawed? the poor guy just farked the corner up.

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I can't believe it. You gotta picture it. You'r about to live your dream,you decide to practice one more time before the big days and then everything ends,because of a warm up/practice...

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they showed this video like 10 times on the news yesterday..even showed coverage of the medical staff trying to give mouth2mouth/chest pumping...shit was so graphic..90 mphs to a dead stop on a steel beam..

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I feel so sad :(

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PostPosted: Sat Feb 13, 2010 9:22 pm 
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 Post subject: Re: Luger Killed on Practice run
PostPosted: Sat Feb 13, 2010 10:09 pm 
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saw the video on it, one hella of crash.


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Idk, it didnt look that bad, like other crashes.

To me it just looked like a guy slid off his thing and hit a pole no blood everywhere, no debri anywhere, no crashing fyi. Looks fake imo.

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Brago wrote:
Idk, it didnt look that bad, like other crashes.

To me it just looked like a guy slid off his thing and hit a pole no blood everywhere, no debri anywhere, no crashing fyi. Looks fake imo.



did you watch the video he hit a pole, your gonna have debris or blood as nothing cut him. probably broke his neck.

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You can't really blame the corporation.
This IS a dangerous sports where they accelerate to dangerous speeds..

Tragic none the less..

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Brago wrote:
Idk, it didnt look that bad, like other crashes.

To me it just looked like a guy slid off his thing and hit a pole no blood everywhere, no debri anywhere, no crashing fyi. Looks fake imo.


He went from 90mph to 0 in a split second...from hitting a steel beam.

RIP

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I dont get some of you guys,what would be the point of it being fake? It's all over the Olympics news ffs,wake up.

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Brago wrote:
Idk, it didnt look that bad, like other crashes.

To me it just looked like a guy slid off his thing and hit a pole no blood everywhere, no debri anywhere, no crashing fyi. Looks fake imo.


He went from 90mph to 0 in a split second...from hitting a steel beam.

RIP


Seems like he's been watching way to many action movies.

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Brago wrote:
Idk, it didnt look that bad, like other crashes.

To me it just looked like a guy slid off his thing and hit a pole no blood everywhere, no debri anywhere, no crashing fyi. Looks fake imo.



did you watch the video he hit a pole, your gonna have debris or blood as nothing cut him. probably broke his neck.

yea i seen it, it just didnt look that bad. if something was broke it'd look backwards like his face shoulda been facing the way his back is, so its twisted around to make it look bad. it just looked like something you'd see in a movie when some1 died to make it look tragic, but know its fake.

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Brago wrote:
Idk, it didnt look that bad, like other crashes.

To me it just looked like a guy slid off his thing and hit a pole no blood everywhere, no debri anywhere, no crashing fyi. Looks fake imo.



did you watch the video he hit a pole, your gonna have debris or blood as nothing cut him. probably broke his neck.

yea i seen it, it just didnt look that bad. if something was broke it'd look backwards like his face shoulda been facing the way his back is, so its twisted around to make it look bad. it just looked like something you'd see in a movie when some1 died to make it look tragic, but know its fake.

So because he couldn't look at his own ass, it's fake? Yeah. You have watched too many movies.

Get real. You watched a video of a man die while practising to represent his country. It's real.

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So because he couldn't look at his own ass, it's fake? Yeah. You have watched too many movies.

Get real. You watched a video of a man die while practising to represent his country. It's real.

RIP.


yeah serious, i agreed with lempi :shock: :shock:

this guys just trolling probably.

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So because he couldn't look at his own ass, it's fake? Yeah. You have watched too many movies.

Get real. You watched a video of a man die while practising to represent his country. It's real.

RIP.


yeah serious, i agreed with lempi :shock: :shock:

this guys just trolling probably.

Im not trolling, im just posting how i seen, i only seen the vid not what the news said about it or it on tv.

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