Seconds after Nodar Kumaritashvili’s Crash

We covered the death of Luge Olympic athlete Nodar Kumaritashvili yesterday, and today the story goes on as controversy is unfolding regarding video footage of the crash.

NBC last night in late night coverage ran extremely graphic video of Nodar Kumaritashvili’s death, causing many viewers to react in disgust. You certainly don’t tune into a major broadcast network expecting to see footage of the end of a man’s life, and it’s curious that NBC decided to run the footage given the fact that the video has been taken down from online video sites such as YouTube nearly instantly upon being uploaded.

Here is an AP video with pictures from Nodar Kumaritashvili’s death yesterday:

Do you think video and images from Nodar Kumaritashvili’s death should be widely circulated, or do you think good taste should win out for once?

If you want to see GRAPHIC video footage of Nodar Kumaritashvili’s death, here it is without judgment, but in my opinion it’s better left unseen: