YANQING, China — Nodar Kumaritashvili was four curves away from Georgian Olympic history when, on that chilling day in 2010, he lost control. One moment, he was furthering a family legacy, whizzing down a luge track, completing one last training run before the Games. The next, he flew off his sled, over an icy wall, and into a metal pole. He would’ve been the first Georgian luger to compete at the Olympics. Instead, he died. Now, 12 years later, his cousin is. Saba Kumaritashvili thought… Source link

The biggest question since Tom Brady retired is what he’ll be doing with himself now that he’s done as a professional football quarterback. Everyone has an opinion, but Eli Manning, who is also a retired quarterback, thinks he knows what Brady won’t be doing. TMZ Sports caught up with Manning recently and asked him how he thought Brady would do as a broadcaster. Manning didn’t have an answer for that, because he doesn’t think Brady will be jumping into the TV game with him, his brother, Drew… Source link

(Bloomberg) — Sign up for the New Economy Daily newsletter, follow us @economics and subscribe to our podcast. Most Read from Bloomberg Inflationary pressures in the U.S. continued to heat up at the start of the year, data are expected to show, likely putting a Federal Reserve interest-rate increase next month on autopilot. The consumer price index probably jumped 7.3% in January from a year ago, the largest annual advance since early 1982, according to the median projection in a Bloomberg… Source link

The International Olympic Committee and the Beijing Organizing Committee said Sunday that it would “address” numerous complaints from athletes about substandard conditions in the isolation centers they were sent to after testing positive for COVID-19. Complaints have come in via official channels and social media accounts about dirty rooms, non-existent internet access, substandard meals and a lack of training equipment or even space for calisthenics. Russian biathlete Valeria Vasnetsova… Source link

If you asked Miami Heat forward Markieff Morris, he’d be out there playing. The team, however, has yet to clear him from the “whiplash” he suffered after being shoved by Denver Nuggets star Nikola Jokic in November. That injury, according to the Miami Herald, may end up keeping him out for the rest of season. Jokic was ejected from their Nov. 8 game in Denver after running up and shoving Morris hard from behind near mid-court. The shove came after Morris had body checked Jokic and… Source link

NBC is facing a cataclysmic loss of audience for the 2022 Winter Olympics as viewership tanked for Friday’s Opening Ceremony, averaging just 16 million. It is a record low for the Opening Ceremony (20.1 million for 1988 in Calgary was the previous record) and a whopping 43 percent below the 2018 Games in South Korea that notched 28.3 million viewers despite also dealing with a less than advantageous Asian time zone for American audiences. It comes on the heels of Thursday’s ratings… Source link

Jordan Spieth got as close to the cliffs at Pebble Beach as he possibly could on Saturday afternoon. Though he miraculously saved par in the third round of the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, Spieth had to take off running backward after his shot so he didn’t fall nearly 70 feet down onto the rocks and beach below. “It was by far the most nerve-wracking shot I’ve ever hit in my life, like by far,” he was heard telling his caddie. Spieth’s drive on the par-4 eighth landed just a few inches… Source link

ZHANGJIAKOU — Two words no journalist wants to hear in connection with their name are “dragged away,” and yet that’s exactly what happened to Dutch broadcaster Sjoerd den Daas. Chinese authorities hauled Den Daas, who was in the middle of a live broadcast at the Opening Ceremony for Dutch station NOS, away from the camera and shut down filming operations on live TV. Den Daas and his camera operator were not injured in the incident, which only lasted a few seconds but was a stark… Source link

Chrome is changing its logo for the first time since 2014, and if you squint really hard, you might actually be able to see what’s different. Elvin Hu, a designer for Google Chrome, offers a first look at the logo’s redesign in a thread on Twitter, as well as some of the thinking behind the ever-so-subtle changes. Some of you might have noticed a new icon in Chrome’s Canary update today. Yes! we’re refreshing Chrome’s brand icons for the first time in 8 years. The new icons… Source link

Amazon (AMZN) bulls may finally have a reason to smile — just like the company’s logo suggests — after a relatively ugly winter, according to a recent Bank of America (BAC) Global Research report. “We continue to rate Amazon as our top FANG and large-cap Internet stock for 2022,” Bank of America analyst Justin Post wrote in his report. “Amazon’s profit outlook is improving as the COVID impact on labor and supply chain subsides.” Amazon pushed markets up on Friday, and was the… Source link