NPR: Saba Kumaritashvili https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1078597858 Saba Kumaritashvili en Copyright 2024 NPR - For Personal Use Only Story API Shim 1.2.24 Sat, 04 Apr 2026 09:14:18 -0400 https://media.npr.org/images/podcasts/primary/npr_generic_image_300.jpg?s=200 NPR: Saba Kumaritashvili https://www.npr.org/tags/1078597858/saba-kumaritashvili A Beijing Olympic luge racer honors his cousin who died at the Vancouver Games Twelve years after Nodar Kumaritashvili died in a luge crash at the Vancouver Winter Olympics, his cousin Saba is racing in Beijing. "I wasn't afraid. I wanted to be in the Olympics to race." Sun, 06 Feb 2022 03:10:09 -0500 https://www.npr.org/2022/02/06/1078592886/a-beijing-olympic-luge-racer-honors-his-cousin-who-died-at-the-vancouver-games https://www.npr.org/2022/02/06/1078592886/a-beijing-olympic-luge-racer-honors-his-cousin-who-died-at-the-vancouver-games

Twelve years after Nodar Kumaritashvili died in a luge crash at the Vancouver Winter Olympics, his cousin Saba is racing in Beijing. "I wasn't afraid. I wanted to be in the Olympics to race."

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