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Photos: Lugers take to the track a day after fatal accident

 

Officials with the Vancouver Winter Games modified the luge track at the Whistler Sliding Center after Georgian Olympian Nodar Kumaritashvili died Friday in a horrific accident. Here's the latest pictures from the track showing athletes and safety modifications

 
February 13, 2010
 
 
 
A worker walks past the corner where a wall was added after Georgian luger Nodal Kumaritashvili crashed and died during training for the men's singles luge event at the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics in Whistler, B.C.
 

A worker walks past the corner where a wall was added after Georgian luger Nodal Kumaritashvili crashed and died during training for the men's singles luge event at the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics in Whistler, B.C.

Photograph by: Jim Young, Reuters

 
A worker walks past the corner where a wall was added after Georgian luger Nodal Kumaritashvili crashed and died during training for the men's singles luge event at the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics in Whistler, B.C.
Officials work Saturday on improving safety features at the luge track in Whistler after a Georgian luger died during a Friday training run.
A luger slides past officials as they place padding onto steel columns at the Whistler Sliding Centre in preparation for the luge event at the Vancouver Winter Olympics on Saturday. Georgian Nodar Kumaritashvili was killed on Friday after flying out of his luge and slamming into a steel column.
Germany's David Moeller speeds down the track during a training run for the men's singles luge event at the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics in Whistler.
A luger slides past newly built safety wall as officials place padding onto steel columns at the Whistler Sliding Centre. Georgian Nodar Kumaritashvili was killed on Friday after flying out of his luge and slamming into a steel column.
Italy's Armin Zoeggler goes past the corner where a wall was added after Georgian luger Nodal Kumaritashvili crashed and died during training for the men's singles luge event at the Vancouver 2010 Winter Olympics in Whistler. Luge organisers raised the walls at curve 16.