The 2010 Winter Olympics are upon us, with many of promising American athletes competing in snowboarding, skiing, and tons of other events. Mainly, I’ll be paying attention to the snowboarding and skiing, but I’ll try to report a little on everything. The Olympics only happen once every four years, after all!
I would like to address the incident that occurred today involving a young Georgian luge competitor. In a tragic accident, Nodar Kumaritashvili veered off the course around the last turn in his training run and hit a steel pole at 90 mph. He was rushed to the hospital where he was pronounced dead.
An investigation of the area where Kumaritashvili lost control is taking place, and it has been decided the wall next to the turn will be built up as a “preventative measure”, according to the International Luge Federation and Vancouver 2010 officials.
The rest of the Georgian team made the decision to stay in Vancouver and compete, in honor of their fallen teammate. To get the whole story (and watch the video… yikes) check out the NBC Olympics website.
Xtremethings 
I think the track being the fastest is part of it. People just can’t resist it, even if it does stretch things too far. I’ve just posted on this. Here is the link in case you are interested. http://euandus3.wordpress.com/2010/02/13/faster-higher-bigger/
I agree with that, definitely. I also think the turn was unsafe… all I know is I’d be nervous if I was competing in the luge!