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As we all know the Olympics are going on right now with all the countries, it is something we all look forward to but this year it didn’t turn out as we thought it would. Many people watch a sport luging and are excited when it comes. A luger Nodar Kumaritashvili only 21 years old probably his second year in the Olympics or so was killed no one saw this coming many people cheer him on and are big luging fans of him, but that all ended in such a small time just a few weeks ago in winter Olympics on the fast track. He thought it would be a long Olympics but it happened in the very beginning in one of his first races.
What actually happened was on the fast track he was gaining much speed picking up to about 80 miles per hour and then suddenly flew off the side of the track on a sharp small turn and hit the landscape outside the track and died pretty fast after that and tried to be rushed to the hospital but didn’t make it.
I have a lot to say about this but basically my opinion is that there should have never ever had been landscape or concrete anything hard outside next to the track but should have been padding all around. Also the luger never had felt comfortable about riding this fast track he told his dad he was actually terrified. There are many different rumors going around about this but you have to go to a news website to here the real thing, there was a video all over the news on TV but has been taken off because of complaints from the IOC you can still see the video on certain news websites though.

Valentine’s Day blog!
The very first Valentine’s Day started around 498 A.D basically introduced by Richard Cadbury, starting it with just 1 box of chocolates it’s now a big holiday for many people. I’m not all that big of a fan of Valentine ’s Day personally I think it’s pretty dumb celebrating your love and it’s just another reason for girls to get gifts and guys to spend all their money on which if you are in love you do probably spend a lot of money on the girl you’re in love with.
Some facts on Valentine’s Day are that it was started in Great Britain by a lady who brought flowers to her husband after being in war. The modern day celebration is usually celebrated in France and England (pretty close to where it originated). Cupid is actually the symbol for the roman god. In medieval times girls ate bizarre foods on st. Valentine ’s Day to dream of their future spouses. The heart is the most common symbol of romantic love. In Wales, wooden love spoons were carved and given as gifts on Valentine’s Day. Hearts, keys and keyholes were favorite Valentine decorations on the wooden spoons that meant, "You unlock my heart!” There was a belief in the Middle Ages that the first unmarried person (of the opposite sex) you met on the morning of St. Valentine's Day would become your spouse.
Like many holidays, Valentine’s Day is a day of symbols. Walking around in the first few weeks of February, you can’t turn a corner without seeing a red rose. In the 1700’s, English women would write the names of men on small pieces of paper and then roll the paper up inside little balls of clay. They threw the balls into the water and the first paper that popped to the surface was the one with the name of the woman’s true love.
So that is basically everything I learned about valentine’s day I did not think there was that much to it but I guess there was, it doesn’t change my mind though on how I dislike valentine’s day.