Having looked forward to the Olympics for months, I was just about to post an Olympics Trivia quiz to this blog today, when I heard the news of the tragic death of luge sledder Nodar Kumaritashvili of Georgia (a country near Russia). He was killed today during a practice run on the track in Whistler, a track I have photos of that I was also going to post. It all seems so sad now, that I feel posting a trivia quiz is, in fact, inappropriately trivial, and posting photos of the track under construction just kind of creepy.
There is also a grim shadow on the Canadians, as they restricted access to the sledding center. Only their own team members had access until recently. Is the track safe? Is it fair to restrict access to other countries, who might have raised safety concerns earlier? Now it will probably be too late to adjust the track for safety. Perhaps once the snow fell, it would have been too difficult anyway.
We will see if the sledding competitions will take place at all, now. Of course, the souvenir magnet that I bought in Canada this summer was of a skeleton sledder--at least not a luge. Anyway, I vote for the Georgians leading the parade of nations tonight--entering without music, pausing for a long moment of silence, in honor of Nodar Kumaritashvili.
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