Nodar Kumaritashvili was a Georgian luge athlete who suffered a fatal crash during a training run for the 2010 Winter Olympics competition in Whistler, British Columbia, Canada, on the day of the open
Official IOC picture of Kumaritashvili
Spectators at the Whistler Sliding Centre look down the track as sliders pass the point where Kumaritashvili crashed.
Georgian athletes during the opening ceremony
The wall that was installed just past the final turn of the Whistler Sliding Centre after the death of Kumaritashvili
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Nodar Kumaritashvili
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