Nodar kumaritashvili autopsy

Nodar kumaritashvili autopsy

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The winter Olympian who was killed during practice for the luge in Vancouver told his father that he feared the track was dangerous.

Nodar Kumaritashvili’s father, David Kumaritashvili, said his son expressed his concerns in a phonecall before the fatal run on Friday in which he lost control of his sled and slammed into a trackside steel pole at nearly 90 mph.

“He called me before the Olympics, three days ago, and he said, ‘Dad, I’m scared of one of the turns,’” Kumaritashvili said in an interview at his home in the small town of Bakuriani, Georgia.

“I said, ‘Put your legs down on the ice to slow down, but he said if he started the course he would finish it … he was brave.”
Olympic and International Luge Federation (FIL) officials conducted investigations into the ice track but found it was not remotely at fault, with both bodies saying the sole cause of death was “pilot error”.

However, they made alterations to the track for the event that finished last night, shortening the run, altering the angle of the ice at corner 16 and raising the ice wall in front of the metal girder that Kumaritashvili’s body had struck.

The FIL said the changes were done “to deal with the emotional components of the athletes, to alleviate, as best as possible, the traumatic experience of this tragic event”.

The incident sparked a debate about safety standards among competitors, officials and even politicians, which overshadowed the competition at the Whistler Sliding Centre.

Mikheil Saakashvili, the President of Georgia, said: “no sports mistake is supposed to be fatal,” while Ron Rossi, the executive director of the USLuge Association, has expressed his intention to table proposals for change.

Germany won gold and silver in the event through Felix Loch and David Moeller respectively, with Armin Zoeggeler, the defending champion from Italy, claiming third. The competitors wore a black stripe on their helmets as a sign of respect to Kumaritashvili.