Nodar Kumaritashvili, a promising Georgian luger, collided with a metal pole during his final training run and died.
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Olympic athletes are pretty fast, but are they faster than a cheetah?
It's a bird, it's a plane! Nope — it's a luge racer speeding down an ice track at the 2026 Winter Olympics in Italy. Luge — a sport where athletes hurl themselves downhill feet-first on a small sled — wins the gold medal for the fastest Winter Olympic event.
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