Nodar kumaritashvili biography
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Winter Olympics: Georgian luger's dream fulfilled by cousin 12 years after tragedy
"May you carry his Olympic dream on your shoulders and compete with his spirit in your heart."
Those were the words the grieving athletes heard at the opening ceremony of the Winter Games after Georgian luger Nodar Kumaritashvili died in a training crash just hours earlier.
They could also have been directed at his then nine-year-old cousin Saba.
Now 21, Saba has become the first Georgian luger to compete at an Olympics at Beijing
He said: "I think about Nodar. I think about him all the time. Everyone in my family is in luge. After Nodar, I didn't want luge to die in Georgia. I wanted to keep it going."
His cousin would have held that honour had it not been for the events that plunged the Games into grief and reminded the world of the dangers of a sport in which an athlete travels down an icy track at speeds of more than 85mph on a tiny sled wearing a skin-tight
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Nodar Kumaritashvili
Nodar Kumaritashvili (en georgiano ნოდარ ქუმარიტაშვილი; Borjomi, 25 de noviembre de –Whistler, 12 de febrero de ) fue un lugergeorgiano profesional desde [2]&#; Alcanzó el puesto º en la Copa del mundo de luge Kumaritashvili sufrió un accidente fatal en los Juegos Olímpicos de invierno de en Vancouver, Canadá, durante un entrenamiento deslizándose con su trineo a ,3 kilómetros por hora.[3]&#;
Fallecimiento
[editar]Kumaritashvili se clasificó para la competición masculina individual. El 12 de febrero, durante una carrera de entrenamiento en el Whistler Sliding Centre, resultó gravemente herido en un accidente[4]&#; saliéndose de la pista y golpeándose la cabeza con un poste de acero.[5]&#; En ese momento corría a ,3 kilómetros por hora.[5]&#; Sus heridas requirieron asistencia médica inmediata, con compresión torácica y reanimación cardiopulmonar, que resultaron infructuosas. Murió en el hospital de Whistler.[6]&#;[7]&#; Fue el cuarto
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Nodar Kumaritashvili
Georgian luge athlete (–)
Nodar Kumaritashvili (Georgian: ნოდარ ქუმარიტაშვილი; pronounced[nodaɾkʰumaɾitʼaʃʷili]; 25 November &#;&#; 12 February ) was a Georgian luge athlete who suffered a fatal crash during a training run for the Winter Olympics competition in Whistler, British Columbia, Canada, on the day of the opening ceremony. He became the fourth athlete to die during preparations for a Winter Olympics, and the eighth athlete to die as a result of Olympic competition or during practice at their sport’s venue at an Olympic Games.
Kumaritashvili, who first began to participate in luge when he was 13, came from a family of seasoned lugers: his grandfather had introduced the idrott to Soviet Georgia, and both his father and uncle had competed when they were younger, with his uncle later serving as the head of the Georgian Luge statsförbund. Kumaritashvili han själv began competing in the –09 Luge World Cup. He had also been a lärjunge at the