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In a report dated 16 September 2010, the coroner ruled Kumaritashvili's death an accident brought on by an "interaction of factors," including the high speed of the track, its technical difficulty, and the athlete's relative unfamiliarity with the track. [43]
On 18 February 2010, FIL President Josef Fendt issued the following statement: "At the conclusion of the luge competition at the Vancouver 2010 Olympic Games, our thoughts are with the family of Nodar Kumaritashvili. We again offer our heartfelt condolences to them, to his friends and to the entire Georgian Luge Federation.
The ILF had stated that it would investigate the crash and issue a report around the end of March 2010. [2] Furthermore, the Whistler Sliding Centre, which had recorded some of the fastest speeds in luge history, was the site of several non-fatal accidents during training runs leading up to the start of the games. [1]
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The FIL published their reports in regards to Kumaritashvili's death on 12 April 2010 following the FIL Commissions Meeting in St. Leonhard, Austria (near Salzburg) for both sport and technical commissions on 9–11 April 2010. [22] This report was prepared by Romstad and Claire DelNegro, Vice-President Sport Artificial Track, who is from the ...
Davis, a 2014 Olympic figure skating champion and 2010 silver medalist, also took to her Instagram Story on Thursday with a lengthy tribute. "My heart is shattered thinking of those sweet young ...
In addition, another 16 participants have died at the Olympics from other causes; 11 of these deaths were from the Munich massacre. Several incidents related to the Olympics have caused the death of non-participants. Large numbers were killed during the Lima football riot of 1964 and the Tlatelolco massacre in Mexico City in 1968.