bossdawg
02-14-2010, 07:43 AM
Has usa gone to far with the showing of the death of olympian luger NODAR KUMARITASHVILI? whats your take?
vIDEO LINK[WARNING GRAPHIC OR DISTURBING]
Video: Cot Dang: Footage Of The Olympic 'Luger' Crashing During Training Session! (Loses His Life)
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Winter Olympics 2010: raw footage of Nodar Kumaritashvili death left me shaking
Warning to readers. This story is going to describe how the Georgian luge athlete Nodar Kumaritashvili died in the most horrific way at the Whistler Sliding Centre just hours before the Winter Olympics opening ceremony.
Tragedy: Nodar Kumaritashvili's death has been shown around the world Photo: AFP
The networks in Canada and the United States have been given the Winter Olympics broadcast footage and they haven't held back using it. People who don’t want to see it really can’t avoid it.
Unlike British protocols which restrict broadcast airings of the moment someone dies, in the US and Canada such sensitivities are absent.
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Winter Olympics 2010: schedule IOC spokesman Mark Adams said the IOC was trying to restrict the Kumaritashvili broadcast to ‘’occasions where it is absolutely required as part of a news story. Where there is a need for news to use it is one thing, otherwise this is not a spectator sport’’
But to millions who have clicked onto the internet it is. So too for viewers in North America.
It is shocking and brutal and confronting television, but that hasn’t stopped repeated airings both before and after the fanfare of the opening ceremony.
After an hour or so the commentators started to warn their viewers of the graphic nature of what they were about to show.
Said the NBC news anchor Brian Willliams: "We owe folks a warning here. These pictures are very tough for some people to watch."
The local Canadian CTV network operator reveals there has been an avalanche of complaints. They have stopped showing the moment of impact but continue to show the lead-up to the crash, where the Georgian has lost control because of the massive G forces on his body through curve 16.
So what does it reveal? It shows Kumaritashvili at the start of the track, adjusting his helmet.
Then he starts, his hands pushing the sled fast. He gathers more and more speed, over 130km/h, then over 140km/h.
Then in a blink of an eye he flies up high on one bank, imperceptibly out of control as the G forces render any control meaningless.
He then smashes into the lower bank and he is instantly flipped across the track. His head snaps back, his helmet cracks apart, part of it careering to the right, his clear goggles sliding down the ice track.
Kumaritashvili is motionless and bloody, a sickening contrast to the frantic response of Olympic official bystanders who immediately start thumping his chest in the most desperate way.
I started shaking when I first saw the raw footage, without any commentary, available in the media centre well before there was any announcement about the fatal consequences. But the outcome was immediately all too clear. What struck me was the merest snapshot of time - milliseconds - between life and death.
I can’t look at it again, even though television viewers here have been witness to the replay in normal motion, slow motion, super slow motion and super super slow motion. Initially the IOC restricted the footage, ostensibly to allow enough time to notify Kumaritashvili’s family, but also to allow the officials time to consider a moral question about releasing such graphic content.
In the end it was decided that the footage constituted a “news event’’ and was therefore not only available to rights holders, but to every broadcast media outlet around the world.
In Georgia and Kumaritashvili’s alpine hometown of Bakuriani, television broadcasters were also airing the footage repeatedly.
vIDEO LINK[WARNING GRAPHIC OR DISTURBING]
Video: Cot Dang: Footage Of The Olympic 'Luger' Crashing During Training Session! (Loses His Life)
http://www.abload.de/img/nmar53iu.png (http://www.abload.de/image.php?img=nmar53iu.png)
Winter Olympics 2010: raw footage of Nodar Kumaritashvili death left me shaking
Warning to readers. This story is going to describe how the Georgian luge athlete Nodar Kumaritashvili died in the most horrific way at the Whistler Sliding Centre just hours before the Winter Olympics opening ceremony.
Tragedy: Nodar Kumaritashvili's death has been shown around the world Photo: AFP
The networks in Canada and the United States have been given the Winter Olympics broadcast footage and they haven't held back using it. People who don’t want to see it really can’t avoid it.
Unlike British protocols which restrict broadcast airings of the moment someone dies, in the US and Canada such sensitivities are absent.
Related Articles
Georgia mourns luge death
Luge event to go ahead
Georgian luge competitor killed
Death overshadows ceremony
Vancouver Games opening
Winter Olympics 2010: schedule IOC spokesman Mark Adams said the IOC was trying to restrict the Kumaritashvili broadcast to ‘’occasions where it is absolutely required as part of a news story. Where there is a need for news to use it is one thing, otherwise this is not a spectator sport’’
But to millions who have clicked onto the internet it is. So too for viewers in North America.
It is shocking and brutal and confronting television, but that hasn’t stopped repeated airings both before and after the fanfare of the opening ceremony.
After an hour or so the commentators started to warn their viewers of the graphic nature of what they were about to show.
Said the NBC news anchor Brian Willliams: "We owe folks a warning here. These pictures are very tough for some people to watch."
The local Canadian CTV network operator reveals there has been an avalanche of complaints. They have stopped showing the moment of impact but continue to show the lead-up to the crash, where the Georgian has lost control because of the massive G forces on his body through curve 16.
So what does it reveal? It shows Kumaritashvili at the start of the track, adjusting his helmet.
Then he starts, his hands pushing the sled fast. He gathers more and more speed, over 130km/h, then over 140km/h.
Then in a blink of an eye he flies up high on one bank, imperceptibly out of control as the G forces render any control meaningless.
He then smashes into the lower bank and he is instantly flipped across the track. His head snaps back, his helmet cracks apart, part of it careering to the right, his clear goggles sliding down the ice track.
Kumaritashvili is motionless and bloody, a sickening contrast to the frantic response of Olympic official bystanders who immediately start thumping his chest in the most desperate way.
I started shaking when I first saw the raw footage, without any commentary, available in the media centre well before there was any announcement about the fatal consequences. But the outcome was immediately all too clear. What struck me was the merest snapshot of time - milliseconds - between life and death.
I can’t look at it again, even though television viewers here have been witness to the replay in normal motion, slow motion, super slow motion and super super slow motion. Initially the IOC restricted the footage, ostensibly to allow enough time to notify Kumaritashvili’s family, but also to allow the officials time to consider a moral question about releasing such graphic content.
In the end it was decided that the footage constituted a “news event’’ and was therefore not only available to rights holders, but to every broadcast media outlet around the world.
In Georgia and Kumaritashvili’s alpine hometown of Bakuriani, television broadcasters were also airing the footage repeatedly.