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At a distance of nearly four years after the terrible accident that took the life the Georgian luger Nodar Kumaritashvili during the tests of the Olympic competition in Vancouver, back to talk again of security.
Monday 30 September 2013 3 minutes reading time
Vyacheslav Shavlev, appointed by the Sochi 2014 Organizing Committee, supervisor of the disciplines of the casing, said issuer R-Sport that the new Olympic track is among the safest in the world but which incidents in the race can not be the avoided altogether, "I think it serves no purpose to build a bike with all the new generation of safety devices then the athletes who take the road do not have the experience necessary to deal with certain tracks."
Shavlev reiterated this concept continuing, "I think that during an event so important to the responsibility for the security should be recognized by both the coaches that deploy at the start of the athletes and organizers. From my point of view I can say with certainty that the Olympic gut is extremely safe. "
Despite the encouraging words of the Russian supervisor, about the safety standards of the Olympic Sliding Center Sanki, many athletes have complained about the ice conditions considered too soft and uneven.
Furthermore, in the new Olympic track have been entered three uphill sections to reduce the tip speed, keeping them well below the 146 km / h which did score Felix Loch in Vancouver 2010. However, these steps do not have avoided the many upheavals that have occurred in the course of the first tests of the new casing.
For our part, we hope that the death of Nodar Kumaritashvili poor, and served as a warning to coaches and organizers, and that such serious incidents do not occur in the future ever again.
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