THE HORRIFYING death of Olympics star Nodar Kumaritashvili has led to postponing the training in the Winter Olympic events. On Friday’s 21-year-old Georgian Nodar Kumaritashvili lost his life in a luge crash.
He flew off the track and landed on a metal pole in Whistler. Medics administered CPR at the scene following the second of two training runs. Kumaritashvili was then placed on a stretcher with blood pouring from his head and taken away in an ambulance.
The training has now been suspended at the Whistler Sliding Center in Vancouver, according to the New York Daily News.
Reportedly the Georgian delegation has said the country might consider pulling out of the games in the wake of the tragedy. The people who witnessed the horrifying accident told news agencies how the “21-year-old crashed at one of the fastest points near the bottom of the track on the final 270-degree turn.”
“He hit both sides of the wall before being hurled over the top and smashing into the pole at the side of the track.”
Vancouver Olympic Committee has now pledged to carry out an investigation to “ensure a safe field of play” for the games.
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