TBILISI, Georgia — The father of the Georgian luger killed during practice before the Vancouver Olympics angrily dismissed a coroner's report sa...
AP | TIM REYNOLDS | Posted 05.25.2011
Gravitational force overpowered out-of-control Georgian luger Nodar Kumaritashvili and left him unable to avoid the crash that claimed his life hours ...
AP | Posted 05.25.2011
VANCOUVER, British Columbia — The family of the Georgian luge athlete who died in a training crash on the Olympic track hours before the Vancouv...
Erik Rothenberg | Posted 05.25.2011
Is a course being "financially sustainable" really the best metric of success? What about the value of the luger's life and the lives of future riders on the course.
Posted 05.25.2011
Nodar Kumaritashvili, the Georgian Olympian who died in a horrifying luge crash in Vancouver, was laid to rest in his hometown today. (WARNING: link c...
Posted 05.25.2011
The body of Nodar Kumaritashvili, the Georgian luger who died at an Olympics training run in Vancouver last Friday, arrived in his home country Wednes...
AP | MISHA DZHINDZHIKHASHVILI | Posted 05.25.2011
TBILISI, Georgia — The father of the Georgian luger killed at the Vancouver Olympics said Monday his son worried the track was too dangerous, bu...
AP | STEPHEN WILSON | Posted 05.25.2011
VANCOUVER, British Columbia — With the head of the Vancouver Games helping carry the casket to its hearse, the young Georgian luger killed in a ...
Marissa Bronfman | Posted 05.25.2011
While there was certainly a somber mood in Whistler, neither Kumaritashvili's tragic accident nor the downpour of rain could damper the hum of excited anticipation for the 2010 Olympic Opening Ceremony.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011
TVNewser's Chris Ariens is reporting that Steve Capus, president of NBC News, has handed down a directive that the graphic video of Georgian luger Nod...
Posted 05.25.2011
(AP) VANCOUVER, British Columbia — The Olympic luger killed in a crash was honored with prayers and candles at a memorial service Monday, his bo...
Posted 05.25.2011
Nodar Kumaritashvili, the 21-year-old Georgian luge slider who was killed in a horrifying high-speed crash while training on Friday, told his father t...
Marian Salzman | Posted 05.25.2011
With 82 countries participating in the Games this year, shouldn't the course have been designed to be safe for all of them? Where were the safety wardens?
Ann Liguori | Posted 05.25.2011
Hopefully, the organizing bodies and the proper authorities have learned a big lesson. But it is too late for Nodar Kumaritashvili.
AP | STEPHEN WILSON | Posted 05.25.2011
VANCOUVER, British Columbia — Grief-stricken Olympic organizers made final plans Sunday for the body of the Georgian killed on the luge track to...
AP | BRIAN FRIEDMAN | Posted 05.25.2011
VANCOUVER, British Columbia — For the second straight Olympics, athletes from the country of Georgia are in mourning. Only hours after their te...
AP | Posted 05.25.2011
FRANKFURT — The man who designed the Olympic luge course on which a Georgian slider was killed says he is surprised by the death and track walls...
Frances McInnis | Posted 05.25.2011
Although it's obvious -- or perhaps because it's so obvious -- that Canada and the United States are similar in many ways, Canadians almost never talk about it.
Posted 05.25.2011
Georgian luge slider Nodar Kumaritashvili died in a horrifying high-speed crash Friday (GRAPHIC PHOTOS), hours before the Winter Olympics Opening Cere...
AP | TIM REYNOLDS AND TOM WITHERS | Posted 05.25.2011
WHISTLER, British Columbia — It took only three seconds. Sliding faster than ever in his life, 21-year-old Nodar Kumaritashvili had one turn le...
Posted 05.25.2011
Nodar Kumaritashvili, a Georgian luge slider competing at the Vancouver Olympics, died today after crashing during a training run and hitting a metal ...
AP | Posted 05.25.2011