BAKURIANI, Georgia—The Georgian luger who died in a horrific training accident hours before the opening of the Vancouver Winter Olympics on Friday told his father he was terrified of the track before doing the run that killed him.
“He called me before the Olympics, three days ago, and he said, ‘Dad, I’m scared of one of the turns, ” David Kumaritashvili said in an interview at his house in the small mountain town of Bakuriani on Sunday.
His son, 21-year-old Nodar Kumaritashvili, lost control of his luge on the final turn of the course, the world’s fastest, and slammed into a steel support at 90 miles per hour.
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