unpadded steel i-beams along a luge track, brilliant. a fix likely less cost than one commercial spot. let the games begin! here we are now, entertain us.
The IOC's thrill-seeking devotion is boundles s - and reckless. For months, the IOC failed to see the red flags concerning the danger lurking on the sliding course at the Vancouver Games. The leaders didn't listen as lugers complained that Canada had not allowed them enough practice time on a course its designers called the "most challenging track in the world." They didn't pay attention when one of the sliding track's curves -- No. 13 -- was dubbed '50-50' by bobsledders because that was the chance of crashing on it. They didn't make a note when one luger after another was unable to get down the track unscathed in practice runs this week. "To what extent are we just little lemmings that they just throw down a track," Australia's Hannah Campbell-Pegg told reporters Thursday. "I mean, this is our lives."
seriously, they protect the olympic logo more than they protect the olympic athlete.
ok, here is an easy and inexpensive fix. get a pickup truck, load it with bales of hay. stack them on that steel walkway, into a wall. cover them in a tarp to hold them together and slap a visa, the only card accepted at the winter games logo on it, and spare an additional son or daughter. please, don't be stupid. unfuckingacceptable.
—dad