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I hope he's ok, that looked and sounded like an awful accident.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Yes, sickening. 
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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I think its appalling how the tv cameras revel in it  God speed for a good recovery
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I think its appalling how the tv cameras revel in it
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Agreed. Would they home in on a road accident victim in the same way?
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Awful accident. I was having dinner at the time and could hear this noise coming from the telly. Took me a while to realise it was Lanning screaming. Horrible to watch.
Dislocated knee and fractured neck apparently.
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Yes I had to F/Fwd to get rid of the screams - Horrid
And 3 snapped ligaments in his dislocated knee too. Could be a career ending injury.
Just come off the phone to my son also called TJ who will be racing the same Lake Louise course in Downhill at the NorAm cup on 7th Dec. He did not like what he saw or heard either.
He will be doing pretty similar speeds as yesterday - only about 10KPH slower! Fingers crossed!!
They are pretty brave guys - or as he puts it - Big Ba**s!!
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I think its appalling how the tv cameras revel in it
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Agreed. Would they home in on a road accident victim in the same way? |
In the tour de france coverage earlier this year, a rider went down on a very fast descent, knocked himself unconscious and basically came to a stop using his face as a brake. On the live coverage, you saw the initial fall and then the camera cut away completely and filmed something else.
The commentary said that they didn't want to show us the accident because of how awful it was, but they would keep us informed if/when they got news of his condition.
As soon as news came through that he was OK and not seriously hurt they showed the original crash.
I'm surprised with the Lanning crash that they didn't cut away.
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It was live sending, so cutting it away is not really possible. Showing endless replays is different thing. But falls are regular thing in skiing, so noone is really disgusted with it. But I agree... it's everything but nice to see something like this
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so cutting it away is not really possible
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 they seem to have no problem switching to mindless adverts of Bode Miller telling us to go to Trentino. Or they could show some highlights of previous runs.
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I thought the Eurosport commentary was pretty rank immediately after the crash. Anyone with any sense could tell how bad it was. The ski was still on - and at a really bizarre angle.....coupled with that screaming.
"that's adrenalin......he's shouting because he's angry he crashed" - or words to that effect. Dufus!
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Pam in that tenth of a second, when he was falling? I still think it's not really possible to avoid it in live transmission.
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primoz, no, I wasn't talking about the actual fall, but about the way they kept filming him close up, in a huge amount of pain, and then re-showing it.
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Just been watching the footage Here - around 54 mins if anyone is interested, took the rescue people a long time to get that ski off.
Windy
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You know it makes sense.
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Eurosport receive the footage that the local TV stations shoot - as it was going out live, I would suggest that they had little or no control over the pictures. They did cut to give an advertisement break, but as Windymiller, just said it was a long time and they could not show adverts for all that time. The same goes for "recorded highlights". If they do not have the feed from the local provider, they cannot use it. The ads are scheduled in advance and it was just unfortunate that it was the puerile Trentino ad.
I felt the commentators were trying to do their best in the situation - they did not know what pictures they were going to get, nor did they know how long it was going to take to get him off the track. Their comments were perhaps intended to reduce speculation about the injuries. They cannot call the shots when using footage provided by other TV companies. Under normal circumstances they would have expected to have resumed racing within 20 minutes at the latest. That was certainly the case for Nikki Hosp at Sölden in October.
I'm not usually pro Eurosport commentators, but in this case they were doing their best under very difficult circumstances. The German Eurosport commentators also tried to distract from the obvious agony in a similar way.
The crash was shown in the recorded highlights but not lingered over and the comments were more in keeping with the information they had received in the interim.
I think the North American penchant for "crash & burn" footage was more culpable than the Eurosport guys. The European TV companies do not zoom in on accident victims to show their agony.
Sue
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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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hes just come back from ACL ijury aswell..so gonna be a long road back if he does come back..though not sure if its the same knee.
interestingly you didn't get to see much of Kuceras fall on sunday but I hear hes broken his leg, though his crash didn't look to bad before he went in the camera blackspot. He must be gutted that he may miss his home oylumpics
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