How Fast is Too Fast?

Don't blame the athlete - as some Canadian organizers have done. Nor should blame be leveled at the manufacturer of his sled.

The blame lies squarely with the designer of the track.

They had sufficient time to test that track via computer simulation to determine at what speed a body of a given mass would fly off over wall. And don't let them claim they didn't know someone COULD fly off. A simple viewing of Wide World of Sports 'agony of defeat' defeats THAT claim.

No, the designer should have raised the walls on the outside of every turn - encompassing the track similar to the waterslides at many water parks.

The goal of every sledder is to be the fastest. No one ever won a gold medal and set a world or olympic record for going slower than someone else.

And WHY were those steel poles NOT covered or at least shielded with some deflecting system to keep sledders in the track? Check out any divided high-speed highway where opposing lanes are set next to one another. Slope-faced concrete barriers to deflect vehicles back into their own lanes instead of allowing them to cross over into on-coming traffic.

You don't need a Phd to understand that!

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