GENEVA (AP)—An official investigation into the death of Nodar Kumaritashvili
at the Vancouver Olympics will find no single cause for his fatal luge accident.
Svein Romstad, secretary general of the International Luge Federation, told
The Associated Press on Wednesday that the FIL report is set to describe the
21-year-old Georgian’s crash at 90 mph on Whistler’s sliding track as something
that could not have been foreseen.
“Everybody wants a scapegoat and to say, ‘It was that person’ (to blame),”
Romstad, the report’s lead writer, said.
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BERCHTESGADEN, GERMANY(AP) —The International Luge Federation will publish a final report next month into the death of the Georgian luger killed in a training crash at the Vancouver Olympics.
The federation said Thursday that its sport and technical commissions will meet April 9-11 near Salzburg, Austria.
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