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…
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