Winter Olympic Deaths

[maryportfuncity 9,987]

Toyota.

 

Sponsoring the Georgian Winter Olympic Team since 2010.

 

 

Oh aye, and the luge laddo had something in common with Stephen Gately; they both died after hitting bars hard.

[Spade_Cooley 9,001]

Spade and this guy seem to share a sense of humour.

 

Kids these days have their snuff videos served up for them on a plate, none of the research work we had to do as kids.

[Cowboy Ronnie 77]

Win some, luge some.

 

It would have been more fitting had he been competing in the skeleton event...

[lastorders 15]

Toyota.

 

Sponsoring the Georgian Winter Olympic Team since 2010.

 

 

Oh aye, and the luge laddo had something in common with Stephen Gately; they both died after hitting bars hard.

 

 

Do Toyota still have a world rally team? I bet their crew do more than kick the tyres before each session

[BrunoBrimley 83]

One of those luge riders.

 

On the money with that one - top marks BB.

I've been having a surprisingly successful year. First I mentioned Jean Simmons in the 15 Js of death---- Jane/Jayyne/Joan/Jean_Etc. and now a luger. Not the one I expected; but, a luger none the less.

 

 

 

 

Hmm....that seems strange calling a luge person a luger, might confuse people and make them think it's a dead gun. Then again the luge guy was a luger and not a Luger. I suppose the distinction would be upper case/lower case.

 

 

At any rate, with 2 hits of some sort this year, I'm ahead of the DL Squadron (a small victory perhaps; but ,I'll take and cherish it anyway).

[harrymcnallysblueandwhitearmy 1,447]

As usual, before they began I was indisposed towards the Games (not helped by having to write 150+ TV billings for the BBC red button channels), but as usual, being a sports freak, I ended up enjoying them. Particularly when they race against each other rather than the clock - i.e. ski-cross, snowboard-cross and short track speed skating. I've lost count of the people I've seen falling on their ample buttocks packed into skintight suits. Like F1, I enjoy a good crash, but I don't want to see any deaths.

 

I've also enjoyed the hard-nosed whingeing of the British press and the bewildered oh-poor-us defence by their Canadian counterparts. I expect they'll want to secede from the Commonwealth now.

[time 7,939]

Does the bus driver count?

 

At least he had the foresight to keel over while driving 5 other bus drivers to work!

[Tomb raider 9]

The incredible mistake by Sven Kramer at the 10.000 metres speedskating (for non-Dutch as exciting as watching paint dry, I know...) makes one wonder if the next Winter Olympic death might be his trainer Gerard Kemkers, himself a bronze medallist back in 1988.

 

The BBC got the story messed up: Kramer's trainer sent him to the wrong lane, it's not about his skate crossing the line, he took the inner lane where he was supposed to take the outer. That hurts, especially as he was heading for the gold medal comfortably...

 

[chicago103 34]

Between Nodar Kumaritashvili and the death of that female Canadian bronze metal figure skater's mother Vancouver 2010 was an Olympics of death.

 

I would dare say that Nodar Kumaritashvili"s death is the most significant death in the world of 2010 thus far, that will change as time moves further from the Winter Olympics and when almost inevitably some major world figure(s) die later this year. But in terms of newsworthiness on headlines worldwide I cant think of any death of a famous person that has gotten the coverage that this luger has had in this still young year of 2010.

[Godot 148]

Between Nodar Kumaritashvili and the death of that female Canadian bronze metal figure skater's mother Vancouver 2010 was an Olympics of death.

 

I would dare say that Nodar Kumaritashvili"s death is the most significant death in the world of 2010 thus far, that will change as time moves further from the Winter Olympics and when almost inevitably some major world figure(s) die later this year. But in terms of newsworthiness on headlines worldwide I cant think of any death of a famous person that has gotten the coverage that this luger has had in this still young year of 2010.

Don't you dare say that.

[Magere Hein 1,397]

Georgian luger Nodar Kumaritashvili has been seriously injured after a crash in training.

Edit: He has now died.

"No single reason" could account for Mr Kumaritashvili's death during training for the Games.

 

I can think of one: speed doesn't kill, acceleration does. Negative acceleration in this case, but killing nonetheless. Oh, and perhaps Mr Kumaritashvili just wasn't so good a luger.

 

regards,

Hein

[Spade_Cooley 9,001]

Olympic skiing prospect sacked from TEAM USA after urinating on an 11-year-old girl who had just been told her father had stage 4 cancer.

[Windsor 2,142]

Olympic skiing prospect sacked from TEAM USA after urinating on an 11-year-old girl who had just been told her father had stage 4 cancer.

 

To be fair, it probably took her mind off the cancer...

[Paul Bearer 5,614]

Nick Zoricic has apparently died as a result of a skiing accident.

[Whitehouse 820]

Norwegian speed skating legend Hjalmar Andersen died at the age of 90. Triple Olympic gold medalist of the wintergames of 1952 and three times European allround champion. There are three statues of him in Norway.

 

 

Washington Post obit.

[DevonDeathTrip 2,288]

Norwegian skiiing legend and Olympic gold medalist Stein Eriksen, 85, is suffering from neurological problems which have caused him to spend time in intensive care recently.

[Davey Jones' Locker 1,323]

The Sochi Olympics have claimed their first victim: http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2013/12/17/russian-coach-dies-after-sochi-torch-relay

[Grande Pablo 96]

Russian bobsleigh chap from this year, Nikolay Khrenkov

 

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/bobsleigh-russian-olympian-khrenkov-killed-car-crash-135332963--spt.html#rfx9cXH

[time 7,939]

Howard Siler, fomer Olympic bobsledder dies aged 69.

 

He was also the coach of the Jamaican team from Calgary 88 portrayed as a bumbling idiot by John Candy in Cool Runnings.

[time 7,939]

Swiss skiing legend Karl Molitor has died aged 94. He won a silver and bronze at the 1948 winter Olympics - it was downhill all the way after that.

[Sir Creep 7,011]

Could an Admin please merge this defunct and terribly superfluous thread with the Olympic Deaths /Dead Medallists thread that we currently use? Thanks.

SC

[DevonDeathTrip 2,288]

Could an Admin please merge this defunct and terribly superfluous thread with the Olympic Deaths /Dead Medallists thread that we currently use? Thanks.

SC

 

When the summer and winter Olympics are merged in real life, I'd be happy to do the same with these threads.

[YoungWillz 18,948]

Fred Anton Maier, Norwegian Olympic gold speedskating champ at the 1968 Winter Olympics, 76. http://espn.go.com/olympics/speedskating/story/_/id/13050047/1968-olympic-speedskating-champ-fred-anton-maier-dies

[Magere Hein 1,397]

Fred Anton Maier, Norwegian Olympic gold speedskating champ at the 1968 Winter Olympics, 76. http://espn.go.com/olympics/speedskating/story/_/id/13050047/1968-olympic-speedskating-champ-fred-anton-maier-dies

Oh, that's sad. He was the best long distance speed skater when I first got interested in that sport. His Dutch competitors, Kees Verkerk (72) and Ard Schenk (70) are still with us, but also getting on a bit.

[YoungWillz 18,948]

 

Fred Anton Maier, Norwegian Olympic gold speedskating champ at the 1968 Winter Olympics, 76. http://espn.go.com/olympics/speedskating/story/_/id/13050047/1968-olympic-speedskating-champ-fred-anton-maier-dies

Oh, that's sad. He was the best long distance speed skater when I first got interested in that sport. His Dutch competitors, Kees Verkerk (72) and Ard Schenk (70) are still with us, but also getting on a bit.

 

I see Peter Nottet who won bronze in Maier's event seems to be with us also.