KRASNAYA POLYANA, Russia (AP) Everyone knew the danger. An uneasiness hung in the frosted Canadian air four years ago. Nerves were on edge. For good reason. Just hours before the flame was ignited on ...
After Nodar Kumaritashvili's deadly crash, Canadian and IOC officials have stated that "human error" caused the Georgian luge racer's death. But an in-depth Wall Street Journal article suggests ...
VANCOUVER, British Columbia – The show goes on. The mood in the Olympic world was far from what organizers had hoped heading into Friday’s opening ceremony. The death of luger Nodar Kumaritashvili ...
Members of the International Luge Federation will hold a private remembrance of Georgian slider Nodar Kumaritashvili on Feb. 12, the four-year anniversary of his death. The International Olympic ...
Just ahead in the parade were the Americans. Their flagbearer is Mark Grimmette, 39, of Muskegon, Mich., competing in his fifth Olympics as a doubles luge competitor. Kumaritashvili would have been ...
The death of a Georgian athlete casts a heavy pall on the Vancouver Games The site of the Vancouver Olympics luge, skeleton and bobsledcompetitions, the 1,450-m (almost 5,000 ft.) track of the ...
Despite the training-run death earlier in the day of a luger from the country of Georgia, the Olympics' opening ceremonies were launched Friday night with a jubilant countdown by the crowd filling BC ...
VANCOUVER, British Columbia - And they're off - grieving, wary lugers and the rest of the 21st Winter Olympics, save for the downhill skiers forced to put their gear away yet again. The competition ...