history on Instagram: "Nodar Kumaritashvili was 21 years old when he arrived in Whistler, representing Georgia in luge at the 2010 Winter Olympics. He had trained for years on smaller European tracks, but nothing matched the Whistler Sliding Centre, already known among athletes as the fastest and most dangerous luge track ever constructed. During practice runs, several competitors had crashed or complained about the extreme speeds. Nodar himself reportedly told his father he had “never been so s