The Agony of Defeat.: Lots of crashes on the luge track for the women. Also mentioned in the men's coverage was a training run crash by Gold Medalist Zoeggler, and the 52 year old Venezuelan competitor. I understand not showing horrific NFL hits so that players aren't tempted to engange in undue violence to get camera coverage, but it seems something happened to the old Wide World Of Sports style Agony of Defeat moments. I understand the respect for privacy in an especially bad accident, perhaps like the one described in the link. But it seems to me that once upon a time, footage of Zoeggler's crash in training would have been shown before each of his runs. Is NBC hurting their ratings by not indulging the morbid curiosity factor?

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U.S. Skeleton team takes another hit: of Propecia. Lund sent packing.

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Slip Sliding Away: A quick and dirty preview of Olympic luge

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In other NFL news: NFL Fantasy Football Final Results I won. Managers of 2nd and 3rd place teams were danostuporstar and thatweirdguy2. Just saying. Before a playoff game gets started.

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