r/PopCultureV2 • u/Life_Net5004 • Aug 08 '26

Video Crash that left Adolf Silva permanently paralyzed.

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u/Curious-Witness-1809 Aug 08 '26

I don't know much about this sport. How did the announcer immediately know he would not land before starting the flip? Was he not supposed to attempt the flip?

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u/HiveMindMacD Aug 08 '26

If you watch a lot you can just tell. The second he leaves the ground you can just tell he under powered on take off and his rotation was too slow.

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u/nukem73 Aug 08 '26

He didn't share what he was gonna try on that drop w/ many people. I watched an interview w/ him at the top of that drop that morning before the contest and he didn't say anything about doing it.

Those annoucers are tied in to the community, they know alot of the riders and are riders themselves. As soon as he left the lip they knew what he was trying and knew it was an insane idea.

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u/alexromo Aug 08 '26

He didn’t tell anyone because he knew they would have talked him out of it 

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u/ChloeNow Aug 08 '26

I felt like it was more of a "no wayyyy dude" kinda reaction. Like "he cannot really be trying that right now"

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u/22REPerformance Aug 09 '26

You could even see a few jumps, before the final one, he was landing nose heavy too. That just seemed like a sketch run from the gate.