The track has hosted 5,000 runs in its two-year history without a fatal accident, Gayda said. He and FIL officials also said sliders have had more training runs on Whistler than on other new Olympic tracks.

He said smaller nations, such as Georgia, were given "opportunities" to get additional training runs here in January, but did not say whether any of those small national contingents availed themselves of that chance.

He also said VANOC followed FIL guidelines for track availabilty, and "largely" met those.

The wall where Kumaritashvili left the track has been raised. Other changes to the ice "profile" will help ensure sliders who lose control to remain in the track, Gayda said.

"The objective is to keep the athlete in the track -- no matter what," he said

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