A young athlete was taken to hospital last night following an accident on the luge track in Whistler, B.C., but the extent of the child's injuries remain unclear.
Patricia Leslie, a director with Whistler Athletes' Centre, said a young athlete taking part in a regular training run with the B.C. Luge Association was injured sometime between 6 p.m. and 7 p.m. PT Wednesday.
The accident occurred on the same luge track that was the scene of a deadly accident involving Georgian luger Nodar Kumaritashvili. He flew off the track and into a structural post during a training run just before the opening of the 2010 Olympics. Some experts blamed the design of the track for the incident.
Leslie said it was her understanding that the young athlete injured Wednesday, and who was responsive, was not in critical condition.
Chris Dornan, spokesman with the Canadian Luge Association, also said just before 9 p.m. PT that the injured luger was in stable condition.
"The athlete is in stable condition, and being taken to Squamish hospital," he told CBC News.
But those reports appear to conflict with the initial report from the B.C. Ambulance Service that it was caring for one patient in critical condition, and a second report issued after 9 p.m. that a patient in critical was being transported from the sliding centre to Children's Hospital in Vancouver.
Dornan said the injured luger is a novice-level athlete with B.C. Luge, which means he or she would be under age 13. He called the injury "an unfortunate incident."
"The reality is that crashes happen on tracks around the world. That is the reality of the sport." Dornan said. "Our priority [now] is the athlete's health."
Leslie says the young luger injured on Wednesday was on a lower section of the track travelling at low speeds through a corner near the end of the run when the child crashed.
Dornan said the starting position for the novice lugers would be between corners 12 and 13 on the run, and that the crash happened at corner 14.
Leslie said her organization would be investigating Wednesday's incident "to understand why is happened and how to make it better.
"These kinds of accidents are quite common for athletes learning to luge," she said. "I know that the sliding association takes it very seriously and so does the Whistler Sliding Centre because, of course, our No. 1 priority is safety."
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