olympics 2012

A men’s Olympic luger from the country of Georgia died Friday after a high-speed crash on a track that is the world’s fastest and has raised safety concerns among competitors. (Feb. 12)

Raw video of fatal luge accident crash that killed olympic star: abcnews.go.com Winter Olympics 2010: Nodar Kumaritashvili luge death due to "driver error." Kumaritashvili died on Friday in a training accident at the Winter Olympics, after crashing near the end of the track at the Whistler Sliding Center. He went over the wall of the track and hit a steel pole near the finish line. This was a tragic event that should have never happened and could have been stopped if the track would have been safe. This was not his fault, it was the track's fault. What do you think?

Total carnage in the 2008 49er Olympic Medal Race… Denmark broke the mast before the race even started, sailed back in and went back out making the start with 4 seconds to spare using the Croatian boat… Aussies sailed a great race but capsized meters away from the finish whilst in 3rd… Spain started the last downwind leg in 5th, didnt hoist the kite and managed to sail to victory whilst everyone else in front tripped over and capsized… Germany sailed a solid race to finish 2nd …

National Lampoon SPLOG! presents Road to the Olympic Games. In this episode Cindy Lucerne takes a look at past olympic sports. The history of Tug of War is explained as the Fuwa give a quick tug. www.nationallampoonsplog.com

Check out the 20 greatest gymnastics wipeouts ever! I’m pretty sure some of these athletes didn’t survive.