Il ministro georgiano dello sport Nikolos Rurua

(AP Photo/Matt Dunham)

Nikolos Rurua, center, Georgia’s Minister for Culture and Sport, speaks about the death of Georgian luge athlete Nodar Kumaritashvili to members of the media at the main press center for the Vancouver 2010 Olympics in Vancouver, British Columbia, Friday, Feb. 12, 2010. Kumaritashvili died at a hospital Friday after crashing during a luge high-speed training run and IOC president Jacques Rogge said the death hours before the opening ceremony ‘clearly casts a shadow over these games.