Olympic Luge Competitor Killed; Videos Quickly Pulled from YouTube

Immediately after news broke that 21-year-old Nodar Kumaritashvili, a member of the Georgian luge team at the Vancouver Winter Olympics, had been in a serious crash, the footage of the event was quickly posted on YouTube and tweeted around the world.

But within moments of being posted, the videos began disappearing, with the note:

This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by International Olympic Committee.

Some of those videos posted originated from CTV, which broadcast the footage after the event and is the Canadian rights-holder to the games.

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