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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
BAKURIANI, Georgia - Every day since the death of a Georgian luger at the Vancouver Olympics, his mentors and colleagues gather at the yard of his parents' house, fuming about the safety of the track ...
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 ...