Saturday, February 13, 2010

2010 Winter Olympics

Last night I sat down to watch the 2010 winter Olympics, excited to see Canada's opening ceremony, remembering Beijing 2008 summer Olympics, whose opening ceremony was breath taking. However, to my surprise, the opening ceremony was postponed due to a luger's tragic death during his practice run, on the morning of his race. The television announcer warned the audiences at home, that the video and graphics shown would include disturbing images. Then on national television the luger's tragic death was shown via video recorded earlier, that showed his body being catapulted out of his luge and hitting steel reinforcement beams, being killed instantly. Pictures were shown of emergency medical team's performing CPR or the lifeless bloody body. The video was far beyond disturbing, and is offensive. After watching the clip, and seeing the images, would you agree that it is offensive? Keep in mind how his family might feel having their son's death being displayed over and over again on national television as well as circulating the Internet. Do you think this was right for the Olympics to put on national television?

Nodar Kumaritashvili's Luge Slider's Death
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/12/nodar-kumaritashvili-cras_n_460474.html

2 comments:

  1. you have real flare for writing.. is that what you would like to pursue? In fact, what are you majoring in?

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  2. xpuamaeole: i don't know how to comment on your blog, because I am not a meber of that site, but thank you very much. It is actually kind of ironic, i really don't like writing, because i have been told by teachers that i am terrible at writing! ha so i guess i have kind of made it a goal to put a lot of work and effort into my essays this semester and really develop a good way of writing. i really appreciate it.
    Oh, and i am majoring in psychology. I would like to get my PhD and teach at a university and perform research/studies.

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