now joining us from vancouver is a former united states luge athlete, patrick quinn. how surprised were you at this event today, patrick? >> certainly like everyone else, just in complete shock. it's an enormous tragedy and certainly not the way anybody wanted to start the olympic winter games, that's for sure. >> larry: have you ever had a bad accident? >> yeah, sure. i mean, i think pretty much the nature of any of the sports, particularly the speed sports in the winter olympics, that's part of the course. you know, you're going to have accidents. it's part of the game. but i think there probably are very few athletes, be it in luge, skeleton, bobsled, skiing, you name it, snowboarding, that haven't had some sort of accident. >> larry: what made you take it up? >> you know, for me it was just -- really, it was the opportunity to fulfill an olympic dream, and i think that's the case with a lot of the athletes here. again, it's just an enormous tragedy that here's this young man on the eve of fulfilling that lifelong dream. i think for a lot of athletes, you try and g

and, again, it's a tragedy. >> thanks, patrick. patrick quinn, former united states luge athlete. bill clinton is talking today about his health scare last night, next. >>> president bill clinton was released from new york's columbia presbyterian hospital this morning. he walked out in excellent health according to his statement. doctors performed a stent procedure thursday to restore blood flow in one of his coronary arteries. here he is in his own words just a few hours ago. >> i was quite tired over christmas and afterward, but from the time of the haiti earthquake, which was a month ago today, i've been working a lot without sleeping much. you know, i've been down there a couple times but i've been working all over the country and trying to -- i went to switzerland to get some more business support there and had three overnight flights in a week, which is pretty tough. so i didn't really notice it until about four days ago, and then i felt just a little built of tingling. not pain, no grabbing in my chest, and i thought i ought to check it out. it is a fairly typical thing. as