Lost another canadian athlete today.

Sometimes, when you do dangerous stuff, you die.
 
My best friend is on the National team for snowboarding, was telling me they have been having a ton of injuries in both skier and snowboard cross. With the speed and the course design accidents are bound to happen. Definitely a shame, been a rough winter.
 
Wow, that's terrible. RIP.
 
not that bad looking of an accident.. very unlucky.

makes you realize how easy it can be to bite the biscuit.
 
wonder how he died. didn't look like he hit anything head on. now come to think in comparison motogp is so much safer, even though gp racers travel 3x faster than ski racers.
 
I remember when Ulrike Maier died a while back in a downhill event..they initially thought she hit a post or snow-gun pipe or something..turned out she just hit the edge of the course with her head and broke her neck. I think the organizers were found not liable. I think there's an implied danger in this type of event. I think there'd have to be some kind of gross negligence proven before they could successfully sue. I think these courses are fairly well scrutinized for safety by a lot of people. I don't think they'll have much success suing. It's a terrible tragedy for sure though. RIP.
 
invictus43 said:
I remember when Ulrike Maier died a while back in a downhill event..they initially thought she hit a post or snow-gun pipe or something..turned out she just hit the edge of the course with her head and broke her neck. I think the organizers were found not liable. I think there's an implied danger in this type of event. I think there'd have to be some kind of gross negligence proven before they could successfully sue. I think these courses are fairly well scrutinized for safety by a lot of people. I don't think they'll have much success suing. It's a terrible tragedy for sure though. RIP.
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thats alot of thinking

your head must be gigantic with all that thinking power:p
 
I'm not waiting to see the first major casualty from that new downhill skating thing they came up with.

This looked like the leader started squeezing the others to the right as they went down.
No one tried to cut back to the left and they eventually ran out of track.
 
mmmnaked said:
Sometimes, when you do dangerous stuff, you die.
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That is just dumb, to say that in motorcycle forum of all places - please go back to you mac fanboy thread.

Track design is ridiculous, I don't think they can even see the gate until they clear the ramp...

RIP Nick.
 
adv_round said:
That is just dumb, to say that in motorcycle forum of all places - please go back to you mac fanboy thread.

Track design is ridiculous, I don't think they can even see the gate until they clear the ramp...

RIP Nick.
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+1 on your response and RIP Nick
 
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RIP Nick. Horrible accident :(
 
adv_round said:
That is just dumb, to say that in motorcycle forum of all places - please go back to you mac fanboy thread.

Track design is ridiculous, I don't think they can even see the gate until they clear the ramp...

RIP Nick.
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Whats dumb is trying to place the blame on someone else. Its a dangerous sport.

Its not as if they were brought to the course blindfolded without a clue of the layout. **** happens, why does anybody have to get sued over it?
 
mmmnaked said:
Whats dumb is trying to place the blame on someone else. Its a dangerous sport.

Its not as if they were brought to the course blindfolded without a clue of the layout. **** happens, why does anybody have to get sued over it?
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Exactly they get an inspection run, if they see something unsafe they can bring it up or decide not to run.
 
Great track design. If he hadn't landed in the catch fence there was a huge red stanchion waiting for him to slam into which was much closer to the track and the 2nd place guy narrowly missed. Engineering marvel. Talk about no chance. RIP Nick
 
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The camera doen't accurately show the real topography and, to those outside the sport, the speed. With the kinetic energy involved all one has to do is catch a bad angle and it goes from bruise to RIP.

Sad
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