Nodar Kumaritashvili Death

Dead Olympic Luger's Father Angrily Lashes Out

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

TBILISI, Georgia — The father of the Georgian luger killed during practice before the Vancouver Olympics angrily dismissed a coroner's report sa...

Olympic Luge Death: Federation Blames The Victim

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 ...

Kumaritashvili Family To Receive Insurance Payout After Luge Death

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...

Nodar Kumaritashvili Funeral: Luger To Be Buried In Georgia (PHOTOS)

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...

Werner Hoeger, Olympic Luger, Criticized Vancouver Luge Track

Posted 05.25.2011

Werner Hoeger, a two-time Olympic luge competitor who trained on the Vancouver luge track where Georgian Nodar Kumaritashvili died last week, raised w...

Nodar Kumaritashvili Wake Held In Georgia (PHOTOS)

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...

Nodar Kumaritashvili, Dead Luger: 'I Will Either Win Or Die'

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...

Dead Luger's Body Begins Journey Home To Georgia

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 ...

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Steve Capus Instructs NBC News To Stop Showing Video Of Luger's Deadly Run

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...

Nodar Kumaritashvili Memorial: Dead Luger Remembered In Vancouver

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...

Kumaritashvili's Body Returning To Georgia

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...

Olympians on Wall Street

Jon Ossoff | Posted 05.25.2011

Jon Ossoff

We have become a ravenous global culture (and yes, this transcends our borders) driven by the next new thing, the next great thing, the next hyper advance and then some.

Kumaritashvili Feared Luge Track On Which He Later Died

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...

Georgian Luge Death Leaves Team In Mourning

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...

Olympics Luge Track Designer, Udo Gurgel, Shocked By Death

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...

Nodar Kumaritashvili Crash: Olympic Luge Competitor's Injuries Life-Threatening

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 ...