{"id":312594,"date":"2010-02-12T16:08:39","date_gmt":"2010-02-12T21:08:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kempton.wordpress.com\/?p=9692"},"modified":"2010-02-12T16:08:39","modified_gmt":"2010-02-12T21:08:39","slug":"georgian-luger-nodar-kumaritashvili-dies-in-olympic-training-run-1988-%e2%80%93-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/312594","title":{"rendered":"Georgian luger Nodar Kumaritashvili dies in Olympic training run (1988 \u2013 2010)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>I am deeply saddened for <a title=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/olympics\/luge\/story\/2010\/02\/12\/spo-luge-georgian-alert.html\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/olympics\/luge\/story\/2010\/02\/12\/spo-luge-georgian-alert.html\" >death<\/a> of Georgian luger <strong><a title=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nodar_Kumaritashvili\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nodar_Kumaritashvili\" >Nodar Kumaritashvili<\/a><\/strong>. My thoughts go to his families &amp; loved ones &amp; the Olympic athletes that are affected by this tragic lost.<\/p>\n<p><strong>My current thoughts<\/strong>: There is a measure of risk in all sports, especially in a high speed sport like <a title=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Luge\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Luge\" >luge<\/a>. At the same time, it is important make sure Olympic athletes from all countries be as safe as possible, it is our duty as Olympic host to ensure their safety.<\/p>\n<p>I think the <a title=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Luge\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Luge\" >luge<\/a> course should be re-evaluated again and see if there are measures to make it safer. I am concern some athletes are calling this fast track, &#8220;one of the most dangerous in the world&#8221;. As this is a developing story, I will write more later. Here is a <a title=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/video\/#\/News\/ID=1411921232\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/video\/#\/News\/ID=1411921232\" >CBC report with video<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For now, again, I am deeply unsettled and saddened of the <a title=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/olympics\/luge\/story\/2010\/02\/12\/spo-luge-georgian-alert.html\" href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/olympics\/luge\/story\/2010\/02\/12\/spo-luge-georgian-alert.html\" >death<\/a> of <a title=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nodar_Kumaritashvili\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nodar_Kumaritashvili\" >Nodar Kumaritashvili<\/a>. This is a terrible lost for Canada and Canadians.<\/p>\n<p>Filed under: <a href='http:\/\/kempton.wordpress.com\/category\/2010-olympics\/'>2010-Olympics<\/a>, <a href='http:\/\/kempton.wordpress.com\/category\/people\/'>people<\/a>  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gocomments\/kempton.wordpress.com\/9692\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/comments\/kempton.wordpress.com\/9692\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/godelicious\/kempton.wordpress.com\/9692\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/delicious\/kempton.wordpress.com\/9692\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gostumble\/kempton.wordpress.com\/9692\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/stumble\/kempton.wordpress.com\/9692\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/godigg\/kempton.wordpress.com\/9692\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/digg\/kempton.wordpress.com\/9692\/\" \/><\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/goreddit\/kempton.wordpress.com\/9692\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/reddit\/kempton.wordpress.com\/9692\/\" \/><\/a> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/stats.wordpress.com\/b.gif?host=kempton.wordpress.com&#038;blog=364107&#038;post=9692&#038;subd=kempton&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am deeply saddened for death of Georgian luger Nodar Kumaritashvili. My thoughts go to his families &amp; loved ones &amp; the Olympic athletes that are affected by this tragic lost. My current thoughts: There is a measure of risk in all sports, especially in a high speed sport like luge. At the same time, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":841,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-312594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/841"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312594\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}