Olympic Luger Dies on Fast Track

Nodar Kumaritashvili, a luger from Georgia died during his final training run at the 2010 Vancouver Olympic games. He was traveling at 88 miles per hour when he lost control and slammed into a steel pole. The Whistler track is 15 to 20 miles per hour faster than any other track in the world. It was deemed by officials to be fast but safe. Some athletes thought that someone would 100 miles per hour for the first time. There were other safety precautions added after this accident to help prevent future injury.
I think that it is a tragedy that an athlete would die competing at the Olympics. The games are suppose to celebrate peaceful competition between countries in the world. I think that the safety precautions should have been taken before the event started. I would have thought that they would have done so because of the speed of the track. Hopefully their will not be any more deaths at the Olympic games.