Originally Posted by queerpunk

It might be better to talk about facts rather than opinions about facts. Why don't you search the Cyclingnews archives and come up with a bunch of examples about terrible injuries from failed barrier hops?

I see crashes in just about every pro race that has fast barriers or sub-40cm barriers, but I can't for the life of me remember an example in the past five years of somebody getting badly injured from a failed hop crash.