VANCOUVER – Four-time Olympian Angela Ruggiero (Simi Valley, Calif.) was elected as one of two individuals to represent athletes on the International Olympic Committee Athletes' Commission, as announced today by the IOC. The election took place over the last three weeks in the Vancouver and Whistler Athlete Villages, as athletes from around the world selected Ruggiero and skeleton athlete Adam Pengilly from Great Britian for the two open positions.

On Friday afternoon during training for the Luge competition in Vancouver, site of the 2010 Winter Olympic Games, a 21-year-old luger from Georgia named Nodar Kumaritashvili was killed. His sled was traveling 90 MPH and he was thrown into an unpadded steel beam.