{"id":450,"date":"2010-02-12T18:34:10","date_gmt":"2010-02-12T22:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/?p=450"},"modified":"2010-02-12T18:34:10","modified_gmt":"2010-02-12T22:34:10","slug":"tragety-starts-olympics-in-vancouver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/2010\/02\/12\/tragety-starts-olympics-in-vancouver\/","title":{"rendered":"Tragety starts Olympics in Vancouver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Georgian luge comp<a href=\"http:\/\/view.picapp.com?iid=7897233&amp;term=%5c%22kumaritashvili\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"border: 0pt none\" src=\"http:\/\/cdn.picapp.com\/ftp\/Images\/7\/6\/5\/a\/Luge_349a.jpg?adImageId=10211058&amp;imageId=7897233\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Luge\" width=\"234\" height=\"130\" \/><\/a>etitor Nodar Kumaritashvili died after a crash in practice. There is even talk that his death may make the country of Georgia drop out of the games but it&#8217;s likely they will remain there and take part in the opening ceremonies tonight.<\/p>\n<p>Kumaritashvili was traveling at 90 mph when he lost control, flew over top the course and hit a steel rod at the finish line.<\/p>\n<p>He was pronounced dead later at the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s certainly a black mark as the Olympics open tonight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Georgian luge competitor Nodar Kumaritashvili died after a crash in practice. There is even talk that his death may make the country of Georgia drop out of the games but it&#8217;s likely they will remain there and take part in the opening ceremonies tonight. Kumaritashvili was traveling at 90 mph when he lost control, flew [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[495],"coauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-450","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"tag-olympics-2010"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tireball.com\/nascar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}