The International Olympic Committee says an official report into the accident that killed luger Georgian Nodar Kumaritashvili at the Vancouver Olympics will be published next week.
International Luge Federation leaders delivered their findings to Olympic officials on Monday.
The IOC said the investigation "covers the immediate circumstances of the accident and the response by the concerned authorities."
The IOC said the report would be shown to Kumaritashvili's family before being made public next Monday.
Report writer Svein Romstad has said no single reason explains how and why Kumaritashvili crashed at Whistler on Feb. 12. The 21-year-old was flung from the track and struck an exposed steel pole after losing control of his sled on the final curve at nearly 145 kilometres an hour.
Romstad said luge officials were initially "baffled" by the death because of the safety precautions in place. The $105-million Cdn track was built for the Olympics two years ago.
Even though the IOC has a policy of "universality" that helps fund many athletes from smaller countries and encourages governing bodies to find entries for them, Romstad said Olympic leaders want to know how Kumaritashvili met the standard set by the governing body, known as FIL. The Georgian was ranked 44th out of 65 sliders in the season-long World Cup standings.
FIL cited Kumaritashvili's tactical errors in preliminary findings within 24 hours of the Feb. 12 fatality — the day the Olympics opened. The track reopened on a shorter, slower and safer course. The Vancouver Olympic organizing committee, VANOC, said Thursday it has submitted staff accounts of the crash and track statistics to FIL.
Organizers in Sochi, Russia, site of the 2014 Winter Games, have been told to keep well below the world-record 155 km/h. They will soon build their own sliding track.
