Luge tries to move on from Vancouver tragedy
By Reuters in Rosa Khutor, Russia | China Daily | Updated: 2014-02-05 07:53
Four years after the death of Georgia's Nodar Kumaritashvili at Vancouver, Olympic lugers begin their Sochi campaigns on Wednesday desperate to move on from the tragedy.
The 21-year-old Kumaritashvili was killed in training, smashing into a steel column, never realizing his dream of even getting just one competitive run under his belt.
He was the first athlete to die in Olympic training or competition since 1964 and it sparked a radical rethink of the design of the Sochi track.
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