А как вам выводы о причине гибели грузинского спортсмена? насколько я поняла "сам виноват" оказался.... А представьте если б он был не грузин, а, скажем, американец... Как вы думаете, какая причина была бы в этом случае?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whistler_Sliding_Centre
"The Whistler Sliding Centre is a bobsleigh, luge, and skeleton track located in the Fitzsimmons Creek valley in Whistler, British Columbia
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(In 2008) praise was given both by the
International Bobsleigh and Tobogganing Federation (FIBT) and the
International Luge Federation (FIL) over the successful homologation of the track.
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Of the 2500 runs executed during International Training week for luge, there were 73 crashes, a crash rate of 3 percent which is normal during the testing of new tracks.
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Investigations were conducted the same day, concluding that the accident was not caused by deficiencies in the track.
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According to the Coroners Service of British Columbia and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP), the cause was Kumaritashvili coming out of turn 15 late and not compensating before turn 16.
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The FIL has stated that Kumaritashvili's death "was not caused by an unsafe track"
Kumaritashvili's death ... raised debate on
tightening qualification standards to weed out unqualified athletes, require a large number of training runs, slow down the sliding tracks, or a combination of all three.
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According to VANOC, over 30,000 runs were made prior to the games with neither the FIBT nor the FIL issuing public danger warnings about the track."
"Training runs on the track resumed on February 13, after changes to the ice profile and a wooden fence being added at the corner where Kumaritashvili lost his life. In addition, padding has been added to exposed metal beams near the finish line.
Olympic officials claimed the changes "are not for safety reasons but to accommodate the emotional state of the lugers"."
The people who built the track would be responsible only if they had violated a known safety requirement, or if they had concealed a known problem. A number of
International and Canadian organizations inspected the track before the Olympics, and didn't find any problems with it. The track passed numerous tests.
So, yes, I am sure that if an American were to die on the track, everything would be handled exactly the same. If there is a shadow of a doubt about the cause of that accident, there is nothing to stop his family (or even the Georgian Olympic Committee) to hire a lawyer and to sue the people who they think are responsible. The fact that they are not doing this, implies that they KNOW that they don't have a case, and that no expert will ever testify in support of the plaintiffs.