Sledding athletes are taking their lives
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Sledding athletes are taking their lives
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#2This is a pretty sad article. I wonder if they've ever considered g-suits to mitigate the pressure on the body. I'm not sure if it'd be effective but fighter pilots have a pretty similar set of extremes that they work in.
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#3From my naive understanding based on reading the article, I don't see how sledding is any more of a sport than a video game combined with fear tolerence.
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#4How terribly sad. Perhaps the speeds of the sled tracks could be reduced. A helmet designed to blunt the millisecond g force spikes could also be developed.
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#5From my naive understanding based on reading the article, I don't see how sledding is any more of a sport than a video game combined with fear tolerence.
how... how did you come to that conclusion?
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#6From my naive understanding based on reading the article, I don't see how sledding is any more of a sport than a video game combined with fear tolerence.
I don't know of any video game where players can actually die if they hit a wall.
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#7From my naive understanding based on reading the article, I don't see how sledding is any more of a sport than a video game combined with fear tolerence.
I’m 14 and this is deep
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#8Article isn’t readable on mobile. Any link to just the text?
Re: Sledding athletes are taking their lives
#9From my naive understanding based on reading the article, I don't see how sledding is any more of a sport than a video game combined with fear tolerence.
> I don't see how sledding is any more of a sport than a video game combined with fear tolerence
Video games are a valid group of sports, so that's not a very meaningful assertion.