Olympic Luge Accident

On the day of the opening ceremonies of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, a luge slider from Georgia diedhttp://www.vancouversun.com/sports/Georgian+luger+dies+after+horrifying+crash+Whistler+track/2556532/story.html as a result of a major crash during a test run on February 12, 2010.

Nodar Kumaritashvili sustained life-threatening injuries as a result of the crash, which saw him and his sled fly over the side wall and crash into a nearby pole, the Vancouver Sun pronounced Kumaritashvili dead hours after the crashhttp://www.vancouversun.com/sports/Georgian+luger+dies+after+horrifying+crash+Whistler+track/2556532/story.html. On-scene medics and officials gave Kumaritashvili mouth-to-mouth resuscitation and chest compressions. He was then air-lifted into a helicopter and taken to a local hospital. During the 2010 Olympics Opening Ceremony, there was a moment of silence to recognize Nodar's death.

There have been several accidents during practice runs this past week.http://abcnews.go.com/Sports/wireStory?id=9819704 More than a dozen lugers have been injured so far in training runs.