The statement also said the acccident was caused by Kumaritashvili's errors — not by "deficiencies in the track .Kumaritashvili is thought to be the first Olympic athlete killed during training or competition since the 1964 Innsbruck Games, when two athletes (one in luge, one in skiing) were killed during training before those Games opened.
-- The Marine Corps says a special operations Marine was killed during training at Camp Pendleton.
Alan Frye, 31, of Roslyn Rescue was killed during a training exercise on Glen Cove Road, where a lane had been barricaded with barrels, cones and flares.
However, it was just hours before the Opening Ceremonies on Friday that Georgian luge competitor Nodar Kumaritashvili, 21, was killed during a training run.
The death of the Georgian luger Nodar Kumaritashvili, who was killed during a training run at the Vancouver Olympics, was not caused by one single event, the International Luge Federation said yesterday.
He found work at a restaurant, but a few months later, in 1988, his world fell apart when his 24-year-old son, David, was killed during a training exercise in Lebanon.
They got off to the worst of starts on the opening day, 12 February, when Nodar Kumaritashvili, a 21-year-old luge slider from Georgia, was killed during a training run after losing control on a notoriously quick track, which led to questions over safety.
In July, a Marine was killed during a training exercise when his UH-1Y helicopter went down at Camp Pendleton.
On 12 February 2010, the day of the Olympic opening ceremonies, Georgian luger Nodar Kumaritashvili was killed during a training run while reportedly going.
His grandson 2d Lt Nicholas Jabara, USAF, a 2001 graduate of the United States Air Force Academy, was killed during pilot training in a T-37 accident on 31 January 2002.
