To what extent are we just little lemmings that they just throw down a track and we’re crash-test dummies? I mean, this is our lives.
This quote earlier in the week from Australian luger Hannah Campbell-Pegg now seems all the more poignant with the news that Georgian competitor Nodar Kumaritashvili has died after a training accident on the track.
Tonight’s opening ceremony has suddenly become secondary news, you have to feel.