HEADLINE: Raw video: Olympics Fireworks

CAPTION: Despite the training-run death earlier in the day of a luger from the country of Georgia, the Olympics'' opening ceremonies were launched Friday night with a jubilant countdown by...

Top three finishers in the men's single seat European luge championship and the top three in the women's championship in Berchtesgaden, West Germany.

1. various of Karl Brunner of Italy who came
third
2. various...

Highlights from the internationl luge event which was held to prepare for world championships next month in Berchtesgaden, West Germany.

1. ws flags and mou
ntain
2. ms lady competitors
start off

3. ms lady...

Women's European luge racing championship in Berchtesgaden in Bavarian Alps.

1. various of a woman luger starting and down t
racks
2. various of Margit Graf of Austria starting and speeding dow
n tracks
3.
ms...

Otto Luger, a man from Passau in West Germany has trained trout to perform tricks

1. ms Otto Luger at
pool
2. cu finger touc
hing water
3. cu
trout in water
4. cu finger holds worm, trout j
umps over pole...

An East German wins world tobogganing championships. Thomas Koehler of East Germany, Harold Elder of the USA, Hans Plenk of West Germany and East Germany's Hans Bonsack compete.

1. cu poster reading Rodel (
luge)
2. vs...

Fireworks close Games

Vancouver - 28 Feb
2010
1. Various of fireworks to close the 2010 Vancouver Winter
Olympics
Luger dies during p
ractice, stills
Whistle
r - 12 February 2010
2. STILL of...

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) lifted its suspension of India's Olympic Committee on Tuesday, allowing Indian athletes to compete under their national flag for the rest of the Sochi Games.

The IOC...

CLEAN:Olympics/Luge: Luge death a 'tragedy', says IOC chief

1. Wide of IOC President Jacques Rogge (right) at news conference

2. Cutaway of photogra
pher
3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Jacques Rogge, IOC
President:
"These events are definitely events that are very...

Beijing Olympic officials deny that a Polish luge athlete who was seriously injured in a track crash was slow to receive medical attention (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)

1. Wide of news conference

2. Media at news confer
ence
3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Svein Romstad, Secretary-General, International Luge Fe
deration:
"The run of Nodar (Kumaritashvili)...

India's flag was finally hoisted at the Sochi Olympics, five days after the IOC (International Olympic Committee) lifted a 14-month ban and more than a week after the games began.

The ceremonial...

1. Pan of International Olympic Committee (IOC) President Jacques Rogge and head of the IOC co-ordination commission for the 2012 Games, Denis Oswald walking onto stage

2. Cutaway of m
edia
3. Wide of news...

CLEAN:Vancouver: Canadians celebrate the opening ceremony

1. Wide shot, news conference

2. Mid shot, media at news confer
ence
3. SOUNDBITE: (English) Svein Romstad, Secretary-General, International Luge Fe
deration:
"The run of Nodar...

1. Wide of media conference with Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili

2. SOUNDBITE: (English) Mikhail Saakashvili, Georgian Presi
dent:
"I heard the remarks made by, I have to underline not the...

HEADLINE: Olympian''s father says his son didn''t have to die

CAPTION: In a call home shortly before he was thrown from his luge and killed on an Olympic training run, Georgia athlete Nodar Kumaritashvili told...

Members of The International Olympic Committee (IOC) convened in Sochi on Wednesday, two days ahead the opening of Russia's first Winter Games.

During the session, delegates observed a minute's silence to...

1. Wide of snow-capped mountain, AUDIO: church music, pull out to wooden church sign

2. Close up of sign for Our Lady of the Mountains church AUDIO: church
music
3. Wi
de of...

CLEAN: Makeshift altar in Whistler in homage to dead luger

CLEAN : ItalyOlympic champion Zoggeler receives

Double Olympic Italian luge champion Armin Zöggeler received this morning from the President of the Italian Republic, Giorgio Napolitano, the flag he will carry to Sochi for the 2014 Winter Olympics CLEAN : ItalyOlympic champion Zoggeler...

HEADLINE: Luge chief calls fatal accident a ''mistake''

CAPTION: Svein Romstad, Secretary-General of International Luge Federation, suggested on Sunday that a mistake on the athlete''s part caused the...