{"id":1599,"date":"2010-02-12T17:06:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-12T21:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/02\/12\/luger-dies-in-olympic-training-at-vancouver\/"},"modified":"2010-02-12T17:06:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-12T21:06:00","slug":"luger-dies-in-olympic-training-at-vancouver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/02\/12\/luger-dies-in-olympic-training-at-vancouver\/","title":{"rendered":"Luger dies in Olympic training at Vancouver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes it&#8217;s easy to forget just how high the stakes are in some of these Olympic sports.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/02\/13\/sports\/olympics\/13luge.html?hp\">From the NY Times<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A luge athlete from Georgia, Nodar Kumaritashvili, was killed in a crash in training on the Olympic track at the Whistler Sliding Center on Friday, an Olympic luge official at the track confirmed, the worst-case scenario developing on a track that many competitors have said is too fast.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>According to the Times, Kumaritashvili was traveling at nearly 90 mph when he ejected from the track and hit a steel pole.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes it&#8217;s easy to forget just how high the stakes are in some of these [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[887],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1599"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}