The track that has hosted the Olympic sliding events will have a lasting legacy of high-level competition, officials said Saturday, while insisting the memory of the Georgian luger who died would endure. "We will never forget the tragic loss of Nodar Kumaritashvili, and our thoughts continue to be with his friends, family and the sliding community," said Svein Romstad, secretary ...

Citius, Altius, Fortius - faster, higher, stronger has been the Olympic motto since the 1924 Games in Paris, but has the time come for the brakes to be applied to the danger-seekers? In the wake of a Georgian luger's death at this year's Winter Olympics, the question is being asked: "When is fast too fast?" Maybe when it results ...

International Olympic Committee president Jacques Rogge said Thursday that assuring the safety of competitors was the responsibility of "everyone" involved in the running of the Vancouver Games. Responding to a question on the circumstances leading to the death of Georgian luger Nodar Kumaritashvili on the day of the opening ceremony, Rogge said track safety was an issue to be taken ...