Danger

There has been a lot of talk about how dangerous the conditions are in multiple events at this years Winter Olympics, for competitors.

We have all heard about the luge dude, killed at the last turn.

If you haven't, I can point you towards video of his head getting cracked like a nut. Pretty gruesome.

The down hill skiing deal is also getting press for it's risks.

Listen, if you are throwing yourself down a mountain or ice tube, there are going to be risks.

If the goal of your chosen sport is to go faster than everybody else, there is a greater chance you are going to get a little over your edge of control.

Maybe this years slopes and luge track are a bit more vicious than they have been at past Olympics.

But the point of all of those games is to haul fucking ass, faster than everybody else, down a perilous course - is it not?

That is the whole point, right?

That is how you get the medal.

The ice dancers are not griping about the dangerous conditions of the ice dancing venue.

Because they chose a sport that involves gracefully skimming across some ice, and not one that is comparable to tossing ones self off a glacier.

Now following that, who in the hell calls themselves a racecourse designer - and puts rows of unprotected metal/concrete polls at the exits of fast corners.

That is pure criminal design that is beyond my understanding.

The premise of track design in to create a circuit which both pushes a racers skills and also the overall sport. Faster speeds and times suggest that the course in Vancouver does what it is supposed to, get people on luges moving fast.

I am no luge track designer, but I have gone around enough corners at a high rate of speed to know that you are better off keeping away from the big, hard things.

Placing immovable objects in the run-off/crash zone of a high speed curve is just negligence.

Anyway, doing dangerous shit is risky.

Safety rules are written with blood.

Everybody has to decide for themselves if maybe ice dancing might be more their speed.