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Death At The Winter Olympics

In this three image combination frame grab taken from video provided by the IOC Media Broadcast, Georgian luge athlete Nodar Kumaritashvili loses control of sled and crashes during a high-speed training run at the Olympic Sliding Center in Whistler, British Columbia, Friday Feb. 12, 2010. Kumaritashvili later died at a hospital and IOC president Jacques Rogge said the death hours before the opening ceremony "clearly casts a shadow over these games." (Morry Gash / Ioc Media Broadcast)
In this three image combination frame grab taken from video provided by the IOC Media Broadcast, Georgian luge athlete Nodar Kumaritashvili loses control of sled and crashes during a high-speed training run at the Olympic Sliding Center in Whistler, British Columbia, Friday Feb. 12, 2010. Kumaritashvili later died at a hospital and IOC president Jacques Rogge said the death hours before the opening ceremony "clearly casts a shadow over these games." (Morry Gash / Ioc Media Broadcast)

In this three image combination frame grab taken from video provided by the IOC Media Broadcast, Georgian luge athlete Nodar Kumaritashvili loses control of sled and crashes during a high-speed training run at the Olympic Sliding Center in Whistler, British Columbia, earlier today. Kumaritashvili later died at a hospital and IOC president Jacques Rogge said the death hours before the opening ceremony "clearly casts a shadow over these games." (AP Photo/IOC Media Broadcast)



D.F. Oliveria
D.F. (Dave) Oliveria joined The Spokesman-Review in 1984. He currently is a columnist and compiles the Huckleberries Online blog and writes about North Idaho in his Huckleberries column.

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