Luger Nodar Kumaritashvili said he was terrified of the track at the Whistler Sliding Center the day before he died. The Wall Street Journal reports: “He called me before the Olympics, three days ago, and he said, ‘Dad, I’m scared…
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Olympic Track Didn’t Cause Luger’s Death
Olympic officials said they would raise the wall where the slider flew off the track and make an unspecified “change in the ice profile”- but only as a presentative measure “to avoid that such an extremely exceptional accident could occur…