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Originally Posted by zivan56
Plenty of athletes made it down safety. It is their own greed for a medal that compromises their safety by allowing their bobsleigh to reach those speeds. They could come down at 5 km/h if they wanted, since they do have brakes.
I could understand if there were tons of skeleton/luge crashes, but they can also brake using their feet (to a less effective degree)...and there were only a couple of crashes.
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World cups were held there prior to the Olympics. Over 5000 runs were taken. What can you say.. the desire for speed keeps getting higher until something terrible happens.