MISHA DZHINDZHIKHASHVILI
Associated Press Writer
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TBILISI, Georgia – The father of a Georgian luger killed during a training run at the Vancouver Olympics said Monday that his son worried the track was too dangerous, but insisted on competing because he had come to the games to try to win.
“He told me: Dad, I really fear that curve,” David Kumaritashvili, a former Soviet-era luger, told The Associated Press at his home in the snow-covered slopes of Georgia’s top ski resort. He said the two spoke by phone shortly before the fatal run.