I agree with others here....they are called EXTREME sports for a very good reason: the participants know full well that they are risking life and limb by doing them....period. I hate it that Caleb Moore or anyone else gets killed or injured, but that is the nature of the sport. Football players get traumatic brain injuries and paralysis, but the game plays on. Race drivers get killed and maimed, but the flag still drops. Even pro wrestlers get crippled from time to time, but the rest of them still climb into the ring night after night to face the abuse on their bodies.
You cannot over-regulate a sport...especially an extreme one!! There will be...and should always be a serious risk involved, or else it's not extreme!!
Are extreme sports getting too extreme?
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Winter X Games competitor Caleb Moore died Thursday morning in a Colorado hospital a week after his snowmobile crashed during an event. He was 25 years old. Moore crashed last Thursday while attempting a backflip on a 70-foot ramp during a freestyle event.
During his landing, the skis on his 450-pound snowmobile hit the snow, sending Moore flying over the handlebars. Moore landed face first onto the ground; then his snowmobile rolled over him.
Moore walked off the course and went to a hospital to be treated for a concussion, but his condition quickly worsened. He developed bleeding around his heart and his family said that he had a complication involving his brain. Moore was flown to a hospital in Grand Junction for surgery.
Moore, of Krum, Texas, was the first fatality in the 17-year history of the Winter X Games, but his death raises some serious questions about the safety of the Games, which challenge athletes to push themselves to extremes.
During his landing, the skis on his 450-pound snowmobile hit the snow, sending Moore flying over the handlebars. Moore landed face first onto the ground; then his snowmobile rolled over him.
Moore walked off the course and went to a hospital to be treated for a concussion, but his condition quickly worsened. He developed bleeding around his heart and his family said that he had a complication involving his brain. Moore was flown to a hospital in Grand Junction for surgery.
Moore, of Krum, Texas, was the first fatality in the 17-year history of the Winter X Games, but his death raises some serious questions about the safety of the Games, which challenge athletes to push themselves to extremes.
Read More: http://www.latimes.com/sports/sportsnow/la-sp-sn-s...
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Jimm 2013/02/01 19:01:06
Although I don't understand the allure of doing tricks on snowmobiles. I'll agree that's a bit crazy for my taste. They need to do some serious modifications to make snowmobiles lighter and safer, but it's still their choice.
We very well know what we get ourselves into!
Too often in practice, being different means being extremely macho, even for women (“machisma”) and trying to outrun everybody physically rather than in terms of skill. These trends, people forget, are extremely deep-rooted in how even “mainstream” soprts have evolved.
The growth of limited-overs and 20/20 cricket has led - both directly and indirectly - to making what was an almost pastoral game into one that can be very dangerous as teams on covered pitches have had to search for speed and bounce in bowling and aggression in hitting.
Then there is the growth of two indigenous North American sports - gridiron and ice hockey - which in their violence really rival “extreme” sports and which have caused many severe injuries via their violent collisions or, with ice hockey, skate blades slitting throats.
I am sure many other examples can be found, but in the Enriched World “extreme sports” are really part of the cultural mainstream and have been ever since the 1970s.
Carry on Evil Kneival.....now do it the span of the Grand Canyon......People come to see both.