![]() |
|
|
|
Registered
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Seattle
Posts: 5,824
|
Olympic wipe-outs
Caught this video on MSN. Can't firgure out how to embed it though, so here's a link. Lotsa good spills here. No Luge...
Video | Crashing on the ice and on the snow | NBC Olympics
__________________
'85 911. White - 53,000 miles bought 3-16-07. "Casper" '88 924S. Blue - 120k miles bought with 105k miles. '94 968 Coupe - White - 108,000 miles bought 9-28-17 '09 Cayman - Grey - bought 9-8-20 |
||
![]() |
|
Registered
|
I think the best crashes have been the men's and women's downhill and super G courses. Speedskating and luge wipeouts start and end too quickly. Slalom and GS crashes are relatively slower speed. With downhill/Super G, you can sometimes see the racer getting into trouble two or three turns earlier, struggling to get it back together, losing, and then the aftermath at 80+ mph can go on for hundreds of feet.
__________________
1989 3.2 Carrera coupe; 1988 Westy Vanagon, Zetec; 1986 E28 M30; 1994 W124; 2004 S211 What? Uh . . . “he” and “him”? |
||
![]() |
|
Registered
Join Date: Dec 2006
Posts: 6,522
|
I also think there are more than usual, maybe it's the type of sports now in the Olympics. All these 1/2 pipe, cross skiing, whatever it's called. Or maybe it's the ambient conditions making everything slipperier.
__________________
O2 In Sully We Believe |
||
![]() |
|
![]() |
Thread Tools | |
Rate This Thread | |
|