Good day,
we will start with a warning for Petra Vlhová’s fans – if you planned to get up for the first round of the giant slalom on Monday night, it has moved to an earlier time. After the new one starts at 2.30, the second round is on the program at 7.30.
Today, sledders Jozef Ninis and Marián Skupek competed from the Slovaks, who finally took 21st and 26th place.
Saba Kumaritashvili, whose cousin Nodar tragically died during training 12 years ago just a few hours before the start of the Vancouver Olympics, also competed in the ice slide.
Figure skating culminates in figure skating – Chinese hopes were disappointed by a native of Los Angeles, who still feels that the new country has not accepted her, also because she does not speak the language fluently. She changed her name from Beverly to I.
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1. Twelve years after the death of his cousin
Twelve years ago, the death of his cousin Nodara cast a shadow of mourning at the opening ceremony of the Winter Olympics in Vancouver. The Georgian sledgehamer died during a training ride just hours before the official start of the Olympics.
Another Kumaritashvili, the younger cousin of Saba, who took 31st place in its premiere, was now running down the Olympic ice trough.
“I’m thinking of Nodar. I still think of him. Everyone in the family has something to do with sledges. I didn’t want Georgian sledges to die after Nodar. ” he said Saba Kumaritashvili according to the BBC.
“I was not afraid. I wanted to compete in the Olympics, ” added according to CNN.
His ancient father Aleko built the first toboggan run in the country half a century ago, his father was the president of the toboggan federation.
However, it was Saba who became the first Georgian toboggan to present at the Olympics.
His cousin died after flying off the track and crashing into
