Luge
We were best when it counted
The Vancouver Games started as a ‘crazy’ dream and ended up a wondrous spectacle that transfixed and, just maybe, transformed a nation
The risk of aiming high
Will medal counts affect future funding for Canada’s athletes?
Who’s to Blame?
How efforts to be inclusive led to tragedy for one luger
It’s the best of times, and the worst
Some see all the glory of the Games. To others they are an abomination. Both have a point.
Slow starts mar luge
With the first two turns eliminated from tonight’s men’s singles luge in response to yesterday’s fatal accident, many competitors are complaining they’re getting off to slow starts.
‘All Canadians were deeply saddened’
A statement from the Prime Minister on the passing of Nodar Kumaritashvili.
Georgia team: ‘They will compete, and dedicate their performance to their fallen comrade’
The country’s sports minister says questions about Kumaritashvili’s experience are ‘unfair’
Whistler’s fast—and deadly—track
The plethora of wipe outs during the international training week was a big concern going into the Games
Other deaths on the track
The death of Nodar Kumaritashvili wasn’t the first Olympic tragedy
A dark cloud over VANOC’s Olympic-sized party
Prior to the luge tragedy, there was a sense that everything in was finally coming together
Death raises questions about luge track, Canadian competitiveness
Athletes feel like ‘lemmings’ thrown down ‘exceedingly dangerous’ course
Death on the track
Georgian luger Nodar Kumaritashvili killed during an Olympic training run