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Did anyone see his spectacular fall today - I felt sick watching it - he had to get airlifted off the mountain - is there any further news ?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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See this quote from skiracing.com
"Hans Grugger of Austria, running 24th, had one of the season’s ugliest crashes so far, doing the splits just before a bump and bouncing face first into the ground. He slid to a stop with blood streaming from his mouth and laid on the his back writing in pain, clutching his right upper leg.
Grugger, who won Bormio last season (and Chamonix), had almost certainly clinched one of his team’s coveted Olympic start positions in at least one of the speed events, having won the Val Gardena super G and finished on the podium in two downhills, Beaver Creek and Val d’Isere".
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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maggi, I think someone eventually realised how badly injured he was and they started showing clips of the village.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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It did look horrible when watching the repeats, hope the injury isn't too serious, but it did look bad
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Eurosport news have just show the crash, horrific, they say he has dislocated his hip so he could maybe make the Olympics buy it must be doubtful.
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This further report from Slam! Sports covers another racer - Brad Spence of Canada - who broke a leg on Wednesday during training on the Bormio/Stelvio course.
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| "I've been saying for years that this downhill is too dangerous," said Reigning Olympic downhill champion Fritz Strobl. "For the last couple of years it was OK but now it's back to being too dangerous. I'm happy I made it down healthy." |
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maggi, Should delight Fezza then! 
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Was watching a sports news program a little while ago and its suppose to be dislocated femur. Very nasty as he'll have completly torn the ligaments.
Crash looked bad and the replays looked worse. Split of the skis was nasty and he went face first into the slope. He had a blooded mouth/face and was clutching his right hip.
The crash of the fore runner was also very nasty, looked like he managed to get ski pole tangled in the safety netting and that wrentched his arm.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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Third-placed Gruenfelder's crash in the finish area looked painful too. Apparently some knee damage, don't know how serious.
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PG, It did. But there wasn't any blood, he wasn't helicoptered off, so Eurosport (British anyway) didn't run it (at least) half a dozen times
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You know it makes sense.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Obviously his injuries are bad but they could have been alot worse.
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Poster: A snowHead
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Paul Mason, Could be a career ending crash though - poor man. It takes a lot to make those guys scream and groan and he was plainly doing both.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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What ever happened to full-face helmets for downhill racing?. Could possibly have reduced the facial damage.
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george owen,
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What ever happened to full-face helmets for downhill racing?. Could possibly have reduced the facial damage.
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if he had been wearing a full face helmet he would have probably broken his neck with the impact
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PG, what actually happened to Gruenfelder?
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mark_s, he lost it on the last jump and ended up sliding through the finish line.
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Yep its a pity he fell on the last little jump as he was about 0.3s up on the then leader. As it was he ended up second by 0.03s.
Eventual winner won by about 0.3s so Gruenfelder may well have won or at worst been second (he finished 3rd).
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