Tegis Posted February 19, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted February 19, 2022 On 03/08/2014 at 11:55, Tegis said: Alex Zanardi, I'm not even posting it I see he has managed to land on his head an spent a lot of time in a coma recently, even without his legs. Not a man content lying on the couch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sne Posted February 19, 2022 Share Posted February 19, 2022 The fact that Kenny Bräck managed to get back to racing (in a very short time) after that horror crash is pretty fantastic. He's a incredibly dull person to be around, zero sense of humor and totally void of personality but amazing that he survided. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foreveryoung Posted February 19, 2022 Share Posted February 19, 2022 13 minutes ago, sne said: The fact that Kenny Bräck managed to get back to racing (in a very short time) after that horror crash is pretty fantastic. He's a incredibly dull person to be around, zero sense of humor and totally void of personality but amazing that he survided. 214g Brack endured in that crash. Just Wow! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jacketspuds Posted February 19, 2022 Share Posted February 19, 2022 I was once told a story about a bloke who dislocated his hip playing rugby. Allegedly, while the doctors were trying to pop his leg back in one of his bollocks snuck into the socket on the inside. Comfy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phil Silvers Posted February 19, 2022 Share Posted February 19, 2022 Eddie Kidd was a bad one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted February 21, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted February 21, 2022 On 19/02/2022 at 00:42, KentVillan said: I made the huge, huge mistake of watching a fatal downhill skiing accident the other day. Those of you who have very strong stomachs can look for Gernot Reinstadler's final run. He was a young promising downhill skier, going full speed, and caught an edge and crashed off to the side. The reason it's horrific is the crash was actually just a fairly normal skid, which he would have probably survived with minor injuries, but back then they had wide mesh fences, and he caught one of his skis in one of the big holes in the mesh, and literally ripped his legs apart. He watched himself bleed out. They have since shrunk the holes in fences for downhill skiing so this can never happen again. Funnily enough I saw this the other day as well. I think you're actually playing the injury down. It doesn't rip his leg apart, it basically splits him down the middle like a wishbone and his insides fall out. To put it bluntly! Definitely one of the worst I've seen 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wainy316 Posted February 21, 2022 Share Posted February 21, 2022 I've seen enough horrors from skiing to deter me ever being interested in doing it, but yeah, that's fully sealed it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hamburglar Posted February 21, 2022 Share Posted February 21, 2022 27 minutes ago, Wainy316 said: I've seen enough horrors from skiing to deter me ever being interested in doing it, but yeah, that's fully sealed it. I ended up in hospital and then on my back for a couple of weeks from trying to take a pair of skis off! I’ve only been a few times but would happily risk injury to ski again it’s that good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted February 21, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted February 21, 2022 1 hour ago, Wainy316 said: I've seen enough horrors from skiing to deter me ever being interested in doing it, but yeah, that's fully sealed it. You can't really see much of what happens, but the sight of him sitting up, seeing his entrails and the 30 foot streak of blood he's left on the snow and then collapsing is pretty **** harrowing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fightoffyour Posted February 21, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted February 21, 2022 Yeah that does sound bad, but what suffering a frozen penis? Quote Winter Olympics: Finnish skier Remi Lindholm suffers frozen penis in men's 50km cross-country The immediate concern for the 24-year-old, in the aftermath of completing the final event of his debut Olympic Games, was thawing out his frozen penis. A heat pack eventually helped the Finn salvage the situation at the end of what was a gruelling race. However, having spent almost one hour and 16 minutes out on the course in howling winds and appendage-threatening temperatures of -17C, he was, understandably, left in a tremendous amount of pain. "You can guess which body part was a little bit frozen when I finished," Lindholm told Finnish media. "It was one of the worst competitions I've been in. It was just about battling through. "When the body parts started to warm up after the finish, the pain was unbearable." Poor Lindholm previously suffered a similar incident at a competition in Finland last year, with the thin suits and under layers worn by racers offering minimal protection from extreme cold. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GarethRDR Posted February 21, 2022 Share Posted February 21, 2022 Only read a bit of this page of the thread and I'm already nope-ing out, never to return. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DCJonah Posted February 21, 2022 Share Posted February 21, 2022 On 19/02/2022 at 00:42, KentVillan said: I made the huge, huge mistake of watching a fatal downhill skiing accident the other day. Those of you who have very strong stomachs can look for Gernot Reinstadler's final run. He was a young promising downhill skier, going full speed, and caught an edge and crashed off to the side. The reason it's horrific is the crash was actually just a fairly normal skid, which he would have probably survived with minor injuries, but back then they had wide mesh fences, and he caught one of his skis in one of the big holes in the mesh, and literally ripped his legs apart. He watched himself bleed out. They have since shrunk the holes in fences for downhill skiing so this can never happen again. Oh man, I shouldn't have looked. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tegis Posted February 21, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted February 21, 2022 1 hour ago, DCJonah said: Oh man, I shouldn't have looked. Ulrike Maier was graphical enough for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theboyangel Posted February 21, 2022 Share Posted February 21, 2022 I’m sure it’s already been mentioned (haven’t read the whole thread) but David Busst was pretty nasty! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foreveryoung Posted February 21, 2022 Share Posted February 21, 2022 Someone metioned that Alex Zanardi crash earlier. I'd say it's 2nd to Gernot. You actually bits of his legs in the air on impact, not pretty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tomav84 Posted February 22, 2022 VT Supporter Share Posted February 22, 2022 9 hours ago, Stevo985 said: Funnily enough I saw this the other day as well. I think you're actually playing the injury down. It doesn't rip his leg apart, it basically splits him down the middle like a wishbone and his insides fall out. To put it bluntly! Definitely one of the worst I've seen Oh why did I watch it 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maqroll Posted February 22, 2022 Share Posted February 22, 2022 Yikes, some of these injuries described here are sickening. I used to think this was bad. Saw it live on TV. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turnbull Posted February 22, 2022 Share Posted February 22, 2022 As a big fan of motorcycle racing, I've seen a few fatal crashes on live TV over the years, but Marco Simoncelli's crash in Malaysia in 2011 has to be the most shocking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted February 22, 2022 Share Posted February 22, 2022 We seem to have moved from injuries to most gruesome deaths. One that always sticks in my mind, after seeing it on Youtube once, wasn't a sportsman, but a race marshal at an F1 face (South Africa grand prix 1977). Hit by an F1 car at full speed while running across the track with a fire extinguisher. Was basically shredded. The driver (Tom Pryce) died as well as the extinguisher hit him in the head. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foreveryoung Posted February 22, 2022 Share Posted February 22, 2022 (edited) 59 minutes ago, Xela said: We seem to have moved from injuries to most gruesome deaths. One that always sticks in my mind, after seeing it on Youtube once, wasn't a sportsman, but a race marshal at an F1 face (South Africa grand prix 1977). Hit by an F1 car at full speed while running across the track with a fire extinguisher. Was basically shredded. The driver (Tom Pryce) died as well as the extinguisher hit him in the head. Yeah I remember that one, just watched it again, insane. Jules Bianchi was bad too, not gory this one, just the incident. Edited February 22, 2022 by foreveryoung Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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