Tragic Olympic Accident

With all of the wonderful hype and events leading up to the Olympics in Vancouver, unfortunately there was a horrific accident yesterday that you can't help but ignore.

Yesterday morning, Nodar Kumaritashvili, a 21-year old Georgian (the country) luger was killed on his morning practice run. He was on his FINAL curve and they say he was going 90mph. There was an investigation done and the Olympic committee is saying that the "athlete" lost control and he was inexperienced etc. etc. Which he may have had less experience than the other athletes, but he was ranked 44th in the world AT THE OLYMPICS- how can you call that inexperienced? And on another note there were over 1/2 dozen crashes and injuries the day before! One of the men on the Olympic committee was talking about he even was questioning the difficulty of the track overall and how it is very dangerous!

The video of the accident is SO horrible and extremely hard to watch! They show him loose control, fly airborne over the wall and strike medal beams. As soon as he hits the beam you don't see him move again. Could you imagine being one of his trainers/coaches or teammates that were right there with him? Obviously no one would even think that something of this magnitude could happen.

Could you imagine being a fellow luger that is expected to compete? I'd not only be filled with sorrow, but scared **less as well! I'm not sure if anyone watched the the Olympic Opening Ceremony last night (oh yes I did- made Kyle's whole family watch it for hours only to be the one that falls asleep in the last 5 minutes and missed the lighting of the torch- I mean seriously? But SO typical!) but when the Georgian team walked in with black scarves and arm bands, the flag half staff it really "hit home"... you just never know!