sports are bad, m'kay...

Saw this on the news this morning, apparently, this guy had only ever logged about four hours on a snow mobile and should never have been performing these types of maneuvers at a public event.

One child was hurt as the sled slammed into the crowd.

There will be an investigation into why this guy was allowed to perform at all.... (according to the news clip I say I saw on TV)

*eia, if ever there was such a thing..

Adding video to channels (Eia) - requested by chingalera.

*sports

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Kill cords, people. They exist for a reason.

One shouldn't believe everything one sees on the news. Unless, of course, it TDS or YT.

After four hours training, he could attempt that trick? I doubt it.

So there's a good way to do a runaway snowmobile after a trick jump?

There is no way he qualified for an X-Games event with only four hours on a snowmobile. Possible he only had four hours on this particular snowmobile, but I think the report you saw had bad info or just wasn't very clearly stating what info they did have.

@kymbos @Fletch @pavel_one

Jackson Strong is an extreme Motocross rider, and a dam good one but he is not a rider of sleds.
Within a week after winning gold in LA, he decided he would try his luck at XGames Aspen. He went out and bought himself a snowmobile just for the event, flew to Minnesota and trained for four hours before arriving to compete. His plan was to pull the same trick he did on his motocross, (called the Jack), only this time on the sled to see if he could pull another gold metal win without even putting in the time to properly train.

Watch this report which happened live at the event: http://videosift.com/video/Jackson-Strong-Crashes-on-his-first-run

"Jackson Strong is great at doing tricks in motocross, but his snowmobile skills need work. Strong only had four hours of experience on a sled, but decided to enter the best trick competition at the Winter X Games anyways. What happened next really needs to be seen to be believed.
I really think that Strong should have thought more about doing this. He is lucky someone did not get seriously hurt because of this stunt. Luckily everyone was paying attention and they were able to bail out of the way before the sled could have done a lot of damage."

Read more at http://www.rantsports.com/clubhouse/2013/01/27/jackson-strong-loses-control-of-snowmobile-at-winter-x-games-flies-into-crowd/?mj3tq62shIAM42mJ.99

http://www.denverpost.com/sports/ci_22495095/first-ever-x-games-death-caleb-moore-prompts

Also a snowmobile accident.