Man from Georgia (country) Died just before the opening of the Winter Olympics

http://www.news10.net/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=75225&provider=topJust read about this... I suppose it's not a surprise with how dangerous the Luge is.. But it still puts into question the facilities and how they're running these new games. Pretty bad considering.

Accidents will happen no matter how careful you are. It's never possible to completely eliminate risk, nor would it be a good idea to. The competitor had chosen to take part in said sport, he knew and accepted the risks as an occupational hazard. As long as all possible mitigating actions had been taken, this was just him getting the loaded chamber. He knew it was a possibility, as did all the competitors, and it just happened to be him, and that run.

Yeah, true. Just felt it's world news and considering I've never seen anyone die in the Olympics myself, this was a shock, but I suppose it was always there on the backgrounds as some of it is extremely dangerous.

last death in the (winter) Olympics was the 1964 games in germany I believe. A British luger died during pre-games training, as did a skiier (downhill I think)

Shit happens, such is life :P

You can actually see the video of him crashing and dying
but the site i cant say because ill get banned.coz its got lots of blood and gore and death etc etcActually its on a news site to LOL here it is :)http://abcnews.go.com/Health/video/nodar-kumaritashvili-video-fatal-luge-crash-9823485

Saw the footage, too, just refrained from posting it.

Ooooppps should i not of posted the videosorry if i did :(

You've been here longer than I have. I wouldn't know =3

Im sure a mod wouldve picked it up by now :(

I was watching NBC and they deemed it necessary to show his death 3 times in a row on air.That's tasteful.

This story is sad. But stuff like this happens.

The luge incident, right? At Whistler?
Yeah, heard bout it. REAL HARSH!