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Last year ten people died on a French reality show:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-31809231 Maybe the public are only interested in extreme challenges? Or maybe show producers think the public are only interested in extreme challenges? |
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#752 |
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Her career is already ended as she, like Rebecca, has retired from competitive sport.
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They'll do well to make it to the end of this series the way it's going let alone another one! watching it last night it was very much looking like a show on its last legs, this review will just end up with them hitting the format on the head.
If the weekly format was to give the contestants more training time that's actually caused more harm than good it's just multiplied the chances of them injuring themselves by 6! More jumps, more training, bigger jumps as you get better, bigger risks of injury especially as they'll get tired and sore doing it for weeks. |
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i think that there must be stringent safety measures in place (Health & Safety, Risk Assessment etc) but even so accidents can still happen.
As previous posters have said the total lack of expertise on that slide/skate/run or whatever it was called was so evident. Running, sliding, falling, waiting for others to catch up - there was no sense of competition and it was all a bit lame> I loved the final ski jump last year, but this year the jump into the airbag nonsense is a tad pathetic. The participants surely had the dangers, level of fitness and so on pointed out to them before they signed up to the show. Bit disappointed in Linford Christie - seems a bit of a wimp! |
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#755 |
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They'll do well to make it to the end of this series the way it's going let alone another one! watching it last night it was very much looking like a show on its last legs, this review will just end up with them hitting the format on the head.
If the weekly format was to give the contestants more training time that's actually caused more harm than good it's just multiplied the chances of them injuring themselves by 6! More jumps, more training, bigger jumps as you get better, bigger risks of injury especially as they'll get tired and sore doing it for weeks. |
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At the rate they're taking Zelebs out, they'll be down to none left within a few episodes.
Unless they keep bringing back ones from other years. Got a real laugh at the "Robo-Mills" comeback video. Rolled my eyes a lot too. |
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#757 |
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Scrap it. It seems to mainly appeal to those who want to see people smash themselves up anyway. The concept isn't bad (even if it is badly executed), but the danger element is ridiculous. We can see celebs compete without all this other nonsense.
And anything involving Heather Mills should be killed with fire. |
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Last year ten people died on a French reality show
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-31809231 Maybe the public are only interested in extreme challenges? Or maybe show producers think the public are only interested in extreme challenges? |
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i think that there must be stringent safety measures in place (Health & Safety, Risk Assessment etc) but even so accidents can still happen.
The skeleton bob they got up to speeds beyond 60mph on their very first run ever, when the skeleton thing they lay on is incredibly heavy and being hit by it (or just crashing at that speed full stop) can cause serious injury. And I cant believe for 5 minutes people are usually allowed to go ski jumping before they can even ski, one clip of training last night showed someone land a jump then go careering off the hill on one ski - is this what happened to Beth tweddle also? And as for allowing Tina to do a ski jump whilst 2 people were standing on the landing slope! Wonder what insurance company was prepared to insure the contestants on such a high risk of a payout? And if any company would in the future |
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The worst injury is having to wait another week to see another useless celebrity get injured.. it`s absolute torture. A show every night would have been far better
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The ratings are dropping like a stone, 400,000 less than week one, which was half a million fewer than last year. Heather Mills as the stand-in instead of Gemma Merna sums this show up well. Every decision they have made this year has been a catastrophe compared to series 2014 and 2015.
Channel 4, please cancel it now, no more shows, save some reputation because a turkey like this is damaging to the channel overall. |
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It's a dumb, dangerous show, and anyone who agrees to participate in it must be insane.
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I read that Eddie 'The Eagle Edwards has said it is dangerous..
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...lieve-him.html |
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Rather than these dangerous "competitions" with amateur celebrities - I would much like them to create a series in which they follow a few Olympian hopefuls behind the scenes on one of the seasonal competition tours - such as Laura Deas. Pad that out with information on other hopefuls, information on the competition, the slopes etc etc. Also look at the bob-sleigh team etc
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It's a dumb, dangerous show, and anyone who agrees to participate in it must be insane.
I predict 'The Jump' will now go the same way as 'The Games', which C4 had to drop because a spate of injuries made them unable to obtain insurance for the show. |
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Rather than these dangerous "competitions" with amateur celebrities - I would much like them to create a series in which they follow a few Olympian hopefuls behind the scenes on one of the seasonal competition tours - such as Laura Deas. Pad that out with information on other hopefuls, information on the competition, the slopes etc etc. Also look at the bob-sleigh team etc
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think the BBC has picked up on the Daily Fails story.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-35530839 |
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I have never watched "the jump" but picked up the story from the BBC website.
Looking at the dailymail article which contains clips of how some sustained an elbow and shoulder injury - it looked pretty innocuous. One was because someone was on the ski slope when another did a little jump but fell over trying to avoid the person already on the ski slope. The other was Rebecca Adlington jumping into a huge air bag and not tucking her arms in (bracing herself) on landing into it. Eddie "the Eagle" is suggesting a lackadaisical approach by some of the contestants is contributing to the injuries plus perhaps the organisers losing focus during the training runs (ensuring slopes are cleared before someone jumps on the training miniature slopes). |
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I have never watched "the jump" but picked up the story from the BBC website.
Looking at the dailymail article which contains clips of how some sustained an elbow and shoulder injury - it looked pretty innocuous. One was because someone was on the ski slope when another did a little jump but fell over trying to avoid the person already on the ski slope. The other was Rebecca Adlington jumping into a huge air bag and not tucking her arms in (bracing herself) on landing into it. Eddie "the Eagle" is suggesting a lackadaisical approach by some of the contestants is contributing to the injuries plus perhaps the organisers losing focus during the training runs (ensuring slopes are cleared before someone jumps on the training miniature slopes). |
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What Davina called "Routine back surgery" turns out to be emergency surgery to fuse vertebrae in an attempt to save the spine of Beth Tweddle after breaking her neck and being almost completely paralysed.
Talk about "routine"!?! At least at this moment she can wiggle her fingers and toes... I think the whole thing will be cancelled. |
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What Davina called "Routine back surgery" turns out to be emergency surgery to fuse vertebrae in an attempt to save the spine of Beth Tweddle after breaking her neck and being almost completely paralysed.
Talk about "routine"!?! At least at this moment she can wiggle her fingers and toes... I think the whole thing will be cancelled. It seems this is what happens when you have a show sponsored by Eddie The Eagle Edwards! His sponsorship of the show is rather bizarre in itself, does anybody else think the same? Normally sponsorship of this kind would involve a significant financial input from a large company, not an individual and I doubt Eddie Edwards has huge funds at his disposal. All very strange if you ask me. |
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She has been critically injured and her injury is a very serious and severe one indeed. The possibility of life in a wheelchair if things don't go right. A broken neck and major loss of feeling. Aside from being killed it doesn't get much worse does it. The show is an appalling mess of nothingness and waffling filler and no serious competing worth the name, so on that basis alone it should not see another edition. These injuries and now the very significant nature of the Tweddle one should absolutely seal the decision that this years The Jump is not fit for purpose and be concluded with immediate effect, not try to limp on in a totally discredited manner.
It seems this is what happens when you have a show sponsored by Eddie The Eagle Edwards! His sponsorship of the show is rather bizarre in itself, does anybody else think the same? Normally sponsorship of this kind would involve a significant financial input from a large company, not an individual and I doubt Eddie Edwards has huge funds at his disposal. All very strange if you ask me. |
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Clearly the show is aimed at the mass-market z-list gawpers...maybe a show like that would be more useful if it took a retired sportsperson, or even a *celeb* and tried to get them up to scratch in another sport entirely; say within 6 months? Maybe even sports where being a bit older is no handicap?
So Beth Tweddle - why not see if she can event? Rebecca Adlington..curl?? With both there's a chance of injury (even in the case of eventing, serious injury) but the chances of breaking your neck are a lot lower. |
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What Davina called "Routine back surgery" turns out to be emergency surgery to fuse vertebrae in an attempt to save the spine of Beth Tweddle after breaking her neck and being almost completely paralysed.
Talk about "routine"!?! At least at this moment she can wiggle her fingers and toes... I think the whole thing will be cancelled. Understand totally she was getting the information from 3rd parties. article in the Mirror today picked up on the same tone. Davina will tweet about "harshing her mellow" no doubt if the negative headlines carry on, but the Eagle makes a very valid point. If they have entrants who really aren't putting in the training then clearly putting them on the jump is going to be a disaster. Its basically confirming what others have said here this year a lot of them are only there for the pay cheque. cant see it being cancelled but I can see them only using the Air jump if the lack of training is seen as a major factor. |
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Mark-Francis has been forced to quit with a broken ankle. Broke it on Sunday apparently during the show
http://www.theguardian.com/media/201...acturing-ankle |
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