I saw that also.
it's really ironic because at school around 10:30 (the time the luger crashed) my friend was talking about how the luge was an 'easy' sport, and how anyone could do it, and my other friend was saying how it's possible to crash into a wall and die in the luge. And I went home and found out that that actually happened ;o
I'm kind of surprised that they showed it on my news channel too. They say that it's 'necessary to tell the story' but I really don't think so, and plus, if you died how would you like videos of you dying all over the TV?
I kind of don't want to blame Vancouver 2010 on this, because this is like my home country, but if they had simply took the precautions and padded the metal posts, then they could've prevented his death. And they should've put more thinking into the safety of the competitors, people are coming to your city from all around the world and you want to impress them - not hurt them.
I would say it is 40% the Olympic committee's mistake, and 60% just nobody's fault.. it could have happened anywhere, and it's hard to predict. Just a bad turn of events ):
But I still think that Vancouver is going to be a great Olympics, and the opening ceremony was awesome, it;s just too bad this had to happen ._.