Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
At the time of his death, he was ranked 44th out of 65 competitors in the 2009–10 World Cup season and was regarded as one of the best lugers to come from Georgia. [12] By 31 December 2009, the cut-off date for luge qualifications for the Olympics, Kumaritashvili was ranked 38th overall.
Because of Kumaritashvili's death, the FIL worked with the organizing committee for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi over making the Sliding Center Sanki in Rzhanaya Polyana slower. [16] Despite the changes, and celebrations by the victorious athletes, Kumaritashvili's death overshadowed the race.
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.
A joint statement was issued by the FIL, the International Olympic Committee, and the Vancouver Organizing Committee over Kurmaitasvili's death with training suspended for the rest of that day. [14] According to the Coroners Service of British Columbia and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police , the cause was to Kumaritashvili coming out of turn 15 ...
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.
A joint statement was issued by the FIL, the International Olympic Committee, and the Vancouver Organizing Committee over Kurmaitasvili's death with training suspended for the rest of that day. [10] According to the Coroners Service of British Columbia and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police , the cause was to Kumaritashvili coming out of turn 15 ...
The Linger brothers entered the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Canada defending their 2006 gold medal and as strong favorites to be medal contenders. Controversy surrounded the luge competitions at the 2010 Games following the death of Georgian luger Nodar Kumaritashvili in a crash during a training run prior to the opening of the Games ...
He died from injuries sustained during one of the training runs for the first Olympic luge competition at the 1964 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck. [5] On 21 January 1964, he suffered a fractured skull, fractured pelvis, and other injuries in the accident. He died the next day when his heart stopped during an emergency operation. [6]