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Angry reaction to reports Olympic luge track dangers were known

08:34 am on 9 February 2011

Georgia reacted angrily yesterday to allegations that organisers of last year's Winter Olympics knew in advance about potential dangers on a track where a Georgian luger was killed.

A Canadian media report alleged on Monday that organisers were warned athletes could be "badly injured or worse" on the track almost a year before the accident which killed luger Nodar Kumaritashvili at the winter games in Vancouver.

The vice president of Georgia's Olympics Committee, Vakhtang Gegelia, says the new information is a huge scandal and will demand a new investigation into Kumaritashvili's death

The luger's father David Kumaritashvili, told Georgian television, that he wants to know why they allowed the competition to go ahead if they knew in advance that the track was not safe.