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Originally Posted by CaptainHaplo
I saw they are saying it was "human error" due to a late entry into a corner. The least they could have done was waited until the spotlight had disappeared before issuing that. What they should do is just make changes to the course so that human error - which WILL happen, is not life threatening or causes severe injury (higher walls, etc) that will not inhibit the competition, and then as the spotlight moves off, simply release the cause with notes that changes were made to protect the rest of the atheletes.
Call it "human error" on the part of the victim all you want - the reality is the track was designed in a way that allows an imperfect human to commit such an error at the cost of his or her life - and that means the course designers and engineers and safety officials are the ones who have made the real "human error"
May his soul find shelter in the hand of the Creator, and may his family, team and countrymen remember him with pride.
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Hurrah to that CaptainHaplo. A bit too early in the game to blame the racer. A glimpse of the Sensationalism Feed last night showed the unexpected side-to-side swoop-dee-doo I can remember from crashing my bike/sled/skateboard so many times when I was a younger kid. You know, the wipeouts that led to broken bones or major unordinary pain. Happened so fast his expression didn't really change. Hit the clicker before I could see the rest. Not into "Faces of Death" these days.
What that showed me was that the part of track he wiped out on is probably not the best place to put those kinds of corners. Lack of foresight, I suppose. My uneducated two-bits.