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NBC's Olympic Pulse blog is asking its readers which Winter Olympics sport is the most dangerous. This is a silly question, because the Winter Olympic Games encompasses the sport of ski jumping, and better still, nordic combined, wherein one is expected to survive ski jumping and race cross-country afterwards. Any other sport, no matter how speedy, still involves some form of regular contact with the ground and at least the occasional opportunity to stop yourself hurtling away from it. (They also knock curling, which, let me tell you, is not for the faint of heart, particularly if our schoolyard full-contact curling league where you're allowed to throw rocks ever catches on.)
Putting it to a totally scientific internet poll: Who's flying hardest into the danger zone?
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You forgot Skeleton
Where you race down a luge track face first instead of feet first.
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by MtnEer_in_SC on Feb 2, 2010 7:42 AM EST reply actions
Yeah skeleton would be my vote.
by SnoThePro on Feb 2, 2010 9:30 AM EST up reply actions
There are only so many slots in a poll. Desolee.
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I will give my shirt for Tennessee today.
by Holly Anderson on Feb 2, 2010 4:45 PM EST up reply actions
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