Warner Hoeger might have been a tourist in the world of luge -- he's a professor who competed in his last Olympics when he was in his early 50s -- but he appears to have been an informed tourist, and he warned officials that the Whistler Sliding Centre was not safe for everybody.
Warner Hoeger might have been a tourist in the world of luge -- he's a professor who competed in his last Olympics when he was in his early 50s -- but he appears to have been an informed tourist, and he warned officials that the Whistler Sliding Centre was not safe for everybody.
I still think the training issue is not the main story -- the track was,
as I wrote here -- but there are
interesting points here, including the fact that the course was certified only by elite lugers.
Well, it wasn't the elite lugers who were at risk. It was guys like 44th-ranked Nodar Kumaritashvili. Who, of course, died.
