I like all the hype for the olympics, however when you’ve exploited someone’s death you’ve gone to far!
I watched the opening for the olympics start to finish, thought it was pretty cool and as you may or may not know a male athlete who was to participate in the luge died while practicing.
At around 1:30 AM after the opening ceremony show, there was a short CTV NEWS clip. It talked about the incident and showed a clip of a man going down on a luge. I didn’t realize that it was the actual clip of this poor young man’s demise, until the last second when they showed him, and his luge fly off the slide and brutally smash into a metal beam.
I realize to some this may not sound disturbing but please believe me it looked disturbing, and it brought tears to my eyes.
Try to understand how his team mates must feel and his family back home, who probably can’t do a thing. I don’t feel it’s right the way CTV broadcasted his death and if you agree please comment.
—disturbed viewer
This article appears in Feb 11-17, 2010.
i completely agree. I haven’t seen it, nor do I want to.
Oh, so I need your permission to post, OP?
I haven’t seen the clip, however, these things happen. You think it’s bad, try watch any type of racing, because they’re significantly worse, they’ll show the crash over and over. I remember the death of an off track official in F1 a few years back. They replayed the tire hitting the poor guy in the head at least a million times during the broadcast.
as i said in another post, who the fuck really cares about these stupid olympics anyway?
Anyone else remember that sporting show that used to have a ski jumper falling & crashing right off the lip of the jump platform ?
THey played that on ‘wideworld of Sports’ I believe.
THat alwasy gave me a laugh…but I believe he wasn’t too badly hurt. The luge video I seen would be equally humorous & would have received airply on sports shows for years ‘if he hadn’t died’.
Which is too bad, I think that crash is as good or better than the old ski jumper one.
I know he’s dead, & some may be offended by my remarks…but I didn’t know him, shit he wasn’t even a Canadian !
I’ve read that the Georgian luger did not die at the scene but in hospital a few hours later so you did not witness his demise, you witnessed the accident that caused the injury that resulted in his death. The newscast I watched DID announce before hand that the images about to be broadcast could be disturbing to some viewers so the option to not look was also there.
I find it odd that real life images of tragedies occurring are disturbing but people line up and pay money to view even more disturbing grahic images at the movies. Isn’t it interesting how human suffering and death are not so much fun in real life?
Oh good Ocenalady, then perhaps we’ll be entertained by this crash for years to come…& we can simply say the luger died ‘in hospital’.
I hope the Americans don’t use that in their attempts to kill a revamped medical system in the USA.
Hypothetcal conversation.
Senator Joe Blow—“Did You see that sled accident in Canada ? They took that boy to a Canadian Hospital & he died, lad didn’t even have any gunshot wounds ”
Senator Blow Harder —“Yep, it’s that commie health system they all got up their “
I am failing to get your point More. Why would we be entertained by this crash for years to come?
Personally I don’t find news footage of tragedies, this one or any other, to be entertaining. They are informative and nothing more. But then again I don’t watch the news for entertainment. I watch the news for information.
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Join the silent protest…….don’t watch!
Information that is entertaining…that is the new news…or haven’t you noticed ?
Since he didn’t ‘die’ in the crash perhaps it would be a good one for all those crash video’s etc. we see on You tube, live leak etc.
I was unfortunate enough to catch the last few seconds of that clip Friday night. According to some friends I was with in the bar watching the Opening Ceremonies it was played a minimum of 4 times within a couple of hours. It disgusts me. It’s enough to say that it happened and he died, we can all imagine what it looked like. Nobody needed to see that and anyone I know of who did felt sick and disturbed afterward.
poor guy…
they’re now saying it was his own “human errror” that killed him.
I can’t imagine being able to taste my spleen like that.
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And yet everybody slows down at an accident or watches a building burndown, etc, to see what happened. People are vultures.
I watched that same news broadcast, and the commentator CLEARLY announced that the following scenes we very graphic, but necessary to tell the story. Yes the footage was disturbing, but I for one am grateful that CTV didn’t puss out and not show it. Actually showing it to the public probably helped in getting a known-to-be-dangerous track modified quicker.
If you can’t take seeing graphic images, don’t watch the news. Most of the shit that’s broadcast is not exactly good news.
How much do the Olympics cost? Answer = one death and several injured. Didn’t the Games used to just cost just an arm and a leg?
I agree with the OP: showing that clip was completely unnecessary.
It was shown on live TV, therefore that makes it okay to show it again. I personally saved the clip… what’s done is done, no use trying to hide the footage.
I missed out, who’s got the link?
I can watch clips of people who engage in risky behaviour/showing off/deadly sports getting hurt (and not surprisingly, killed) all day long.
Anyone seen that reverse bungee cord guy hit the the platform?
wack
man.