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Kumaritashvili was born on 25 November 1988, in Borjomi, Georgian SSR, present-day Georgia, to David and Dodo Kumaritashvili. [1] He had one sister, Mariam, who was four years younger. [2] Kumaritashvili's family had a long association with luge. His grandfather Aleko Kumaritashvili introduced luge to Georgia after first training for it in East ...
David Kumaritashvili, father of the Georgia luger Nodar Kumaritashvili who killed on an Olympic training run, shows a photo his son e-mailed from the 2010 Vancouver Olympics.
The opening ceremony was dedicated by the Vancouver Organizing Committee (VANOC) to Nodar Kumaritashvili, a Georgian luger who had died earlier in the day in a training run. [1] An audience of 61,600 was in attendance at the venue, and there were an estimated 4,500 performers.
Kumaritashvili is the first Olympic athlete to die at the Winter Olympics in training since 1992 [16] and the first luger to die in a practice event at the Winter Olympics since Kazimierz Kay-Skrzypeski of Great Britain was killed at the luge track used for the 1964 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck. [17]
Nodar Kumaritashvili died at the 2010 Olympics. His cousin is in Beijing 12 years later to carry on his legacy. 2022 Olympics: Saba Kumaritashvili lives out late cousin's dream [Video]
Kumaritashvili died at the age of 21 on Feb. 12, 2010, in a training crash hours before the start of the opening ceremony of the Vancouver Games. Anniversary of Olympic luger Nodar Kumaritashvili ...
Kumaritashvili is the first Olympic athlete to die at the Winter Olympics in training since 1992 [12] and the first luger to die in a practice event at the Winter Olympics since Kazimierz Kay-Skrzypeski of Great Britain was killed at the luge track used for the 1964 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck. [13]
Nodar Kumaritashvili crash video [ edit ] On February 12, 2010, KTXL was one of the first media outlets to obtain a video copy of a luge accident that occurred during the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver , which resulted in the death of Georgian luger Nodar Kumaritashvili . [ 19 ]