Nodar Kumaritashvili, a 21 year old Luger from Georgia was training for the most important event in his life when he lost control of his sled and crashed and went over the wall of the track and then collided with steel pole.
Kumaritashvili, was training for the Vancouver Winter Olympics when his life was tragically cut short. He was thought to be going 90 mph when the awful incident happened. The track where he was practicing was one of the fastest tracks and prior to this some athletes have already expressed their concern that Luge players from other countries might find that track too daunting.
“I think they are pushing it a little too much,” Australia’s Hannah Campbell-Pegg said Thursday night after she nearly lost control in training. “To what extent are we just little lemmings that they just throw down a track and we’re crash-test dummies? I mean, this is our lives.”
I immediately had chills down my spine when I read that statement. That’s a premonition she had there. If only they did something early on to prevent this. Twenty-one is definitely too young to die. A video has already surfaced but it was taken down immediately. Here are some pictures of the Luger incident.
