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Still surprised not a whole lot of new technology is going into helmets. There is a company up here doing cool stuff with mouthguards that have sensors built into them that can measure impact for football players. A high school team can have a monitor on the sidelines and players can be quickly pulled if they take too much of a blow to the head. Would be interesting to see that in this sport.
I do not think there is anything in the rules saying that they can stop a rider from racing.
Did anyone else find it slow and painful knowing he was going to try to swing his leg over the bike, not knowing the fender was sticking straight up in the air.
Who has blind faith? Certainly not us Christians. The evidence is what turned us to the Lord. You ovbiously have no clue about that. Everything in your little sentence is soooo wrong
The PA, medic, etc's had about 20 seconds to do an evaluation (if you want to call it that), and had even less time to do anything about it. Neither Asterisk guys saw the actual crash, all they saw was a bike (w/o rider) clearing the triple jump.
I'd personally love to see you guys in the same situation, and see what you do.
They did see him attempt to get on his bike, fall on his ass, and struggle to get back to his feet. In medical school, do they teach you that if someone has a trauma and appears to be disoriented there could possibly be a head injury? Maybe you haven't had that course yet.
As your probably sitting here with a four loko in your hand.
Then James got on his bike on his own and took off.
Then put in some of the fastest laps of the night.
If the Asterisk crew would've stopped him based on the small amount of evidence we got on TV, that would've been a big problem. They aren't race officials. And as it turned out, Stewart was good enough to get up like 10 seconds in front of Villopoto and stay in front of Villopoto for 17 laps on his way to ninth place.
So, I don't see why this is even being argued. He may not have been 100% (probably wasn't), but whatever percentage he was was still way better than just about everybody.
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You didn't talk to him on the sidelines so you don't have any idea what went into that decision. 5 medical providers were within 5 feet of JS during that entire incident, so don't solely put this on the Asterisk crew.
This is just about as useless of a thread as the JS/CR incident last week, when people said that JS just hammered it on and tried to hit CR.
James Stewart is racing on the track for himself, a Dallas Cowboys football player is owned by the Dallas Coyboys, when the trainer (who is employed by the Dallas Coyboys) makes a call to pull a player his first obigation is to the Dallas Coyboys best interest first.
Pro football players don't sign a waiver every sunday because the team owns their rights with their player contract.
The fact that james started the bike shows me he was caple, but what do I know ? I was watching on TV...
I just watched this again and now realize they weren't even going to bother to see if he was okay! Neither made any motion to come over to him until he fell trying to swing his leg over the fender. At that point all they did was help him get up and on the bike. If the medical team needs to help a guy onto his bike isn't that the first sign that there is a problem? I think what people are missing here is those of us concerned by this are worried about rider safety. Those defending this seem to think it is an attack on Stewart. At the very least, there needs to be authority to hold a guy that is falling down like that for a few extra seconds to make sure he's okay. If he crashes again before completing a lap, the black flag isn't going to help much. Hopefully, this will be the impetus of putting something in place for handling this type of situation and not a death in the future.
I wonder how much longer it would have taken him to remount if he didn't have two other guys holding him and his bike up for him?
BTW I also think the Asterisk Medical Crew are as least as knowledgeable about head injuries if not more so than any MMA crew. I think you would agree after talking with Doc B. or Eddie C. and I would trust them with my life as all AMA Pro racers gratefully do.
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You think a some point the team and/or riders would give up some control to the medical crew to make a judgment call mid-race? If the rider can't answer basic questions (what city are you in? What day of the week is it? What number are you?) can the medic pull the rider out of the race?. Or will it be the status quo and hope that the wrong decision isn't made.
Has a black flag ever been brought out in SX?
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