Georgia might withdraw from the Olympics in connection with the death Kumaritashvili

Georgia might withdraw from the Olympics in connection with the death Kumaritashvili
Team Georgia may refuse to participate in the Winter Olympics in Vancouver in connection with the death of Nodar Kumaritashvili, reports Reuters.

“We are all in deep shock, we do not know what to do. We’re not sure whether we will participate in the opening ceremony and the Olympic Games as a whole”, – said the head of the Georgian delegation Irakli Japaridze.

Friday Kumaritashvili died in the accident at the Olympic track in Whistler for a few hours before the opening ceremony of the Games. He lost control of the sleigh in the final turn of the route, in which athletes are at an angle of 270 degrees at a speed of 140 km / h. His sleigh overturned, and the 44-th number of the world ranking sanochnikov forcefully struck the metal limiter. From the hit 21-year-old native of Borjomi lost consciousness. Medical staff had to make a direct route, chest compressions on the victim’s place of the accident, after which he loaded onto a helicopter ambulance arrived and sent to hospital where he died.