Sochi Slopes Claim Another Olympic Victim

The slopes of Sochi have claimed another Olympian, fanning fears that the downhill courses are just too dangerous. American moguls skier Heidi Kloser is the latest athlete to pull out of the Games after fracturing her femur and tearing her ACL during a warm-up run Thursday. Unfortunately she had a bad crash in training before qualifying and injured her knee, the 21-year-old Colorado native. She says thank you everyone for all of your support. Kloser's crash came two days after American snowboard star Shaun White dropped out of the slope style competition after deeming the course too intimidating. After much deliberation with my team, she have made the decision to focus solely on trying to bring home the third straight gold medal in half pipe for Team USA, White. Finnish snowboarder Marika Enn was carried off the slope style course in a stretcher after a crash landing Tuesday during training, and men's slope style favorite Torstein Horgmo of Norway broke his collarbone Monday. The finals for slope style snow boarding and moguls are this weekend.

 I agree with the reports about heard the snow conditions at Sochi are far from ideal because of atypically warm winter conditions, and even spectator accommodations are subpar, indicating a lack of adequate funding for the games. Even assuming that they were able to construct quality competition areas in the first place, conditions of slopes can change because of thaw/freeze cycles and make them more dangerous than intended or advisable. When it comes down to Shaun White saying something about his profession and big Jim saying the opposite, I agree to be in his side with White any day. And when professionals who have trained for "years and years" are crashing on a course my opinion is that the issue is not with the athletes. I hope she will available for final game.