Actress Natasha Richardson's recent death, due to an epidural hematoma after a skiing accident, has reopened the helmet debate for winter sports.The tragic death on Wednesday of actress Natasha Richardson, following what a first appeared to be a minor fall while skiing, has sparked a debate on whether it should be mandatory for skiers and snowboarders to wear safety helmets. According to a BBC report, there has been a sharp increase in the number of skiers and snowboarders wearing helmets after several high profile skiing accidents this year - Medical News Today
Read these articles surrounding the topic through the Chicago Tribune and The Guardian.
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This site sucks. Stop fearmongering and check out some facts about helmets and bikes FFS. http://www.cyclehelmets.org/
Skiing is a bourgeois sport that only interests dullards, but as far as cycling goes, helmets are a concession of defeat. Rather than fight so streets accommodate people on bikes, we have resigned ourselves to ride wearing armor, a needless accessory for anyone who has ridden a bike for a more than a week. Plus there is something distasteful about marketing safety with with tits and ass. Yet another expression of "feminism is dead" is too pervasive and boring. In fact a head wound is comparatively more erotic than wearing a mass-marketed piece of plastic on one's skull; the emphasis is obviously on comparatively.
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