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Wide of snow-capped mountain, AUDIO: church music, pull out to wooden church sign2. Close up of sign for Our Lady of the Mountains church AUDIO: church music3. Wide of mass4. Close up of Jerry Desmond, Pastor at Our Lady of the...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003e1. Wide of snow-capped mountain, AUDIO: church music, pull out to wooden church sign\u003cbr/\u003e2. Close up of sign for Our Lady of the Mountains church AUDIO: church music\u003cbr/\u003e3. Wide of mass\u003cbr/\u003e4. Close up of Jerry Desmond, Pastor at Our Lady of the Mountains Catholic church speaking\u003cbr/\u003e5. Congregation sitting in silence, congregation standing up\u003cbr/\u003e6. Close up of woman with maple leaf painted on her face praying\u003cbr/\u003e7. Desmond holds up sacrament, congregation in foreground \u003cbr/\u003e8. Desmond handing out communion wafers\u003cbr/\u003e9. Wide of church exterior, congregation leaving\u003cbr/\u003e10. Set up of Svein Romstad, Secretary-General of International Luge Federation\u003cbr/\u003e11. SOUNDBITE (English) Svein Romstad, Secretary-General of International Luge Federation:\u003cbr/\u003e\"A mistake appeared to have taken place. That is the conclusion we have to draw. But once again everybody does mistakes, from Armin Zoeggeler (who crashed himself on Friday, not long before Kumaritashvili''s fatal accident), if you go to Felix Loch who won the gold medal today, if you start looking, if you bring me the tape, I will show you that he made a mistake on the way down the track. So that is something that every single athlete deals with in this sport and unfortunately this one here was, that small mistake had a fatal consequence.\"\u003cbr/\u003e12. Romstad during interview\u003cbr/\u003e13. SOUNDBITE (English) Svein Romstad, Secretary-General of International Luge Federation:\u003cbr/\u003e\"We did discuss cancelling it, we talked to all the team managers and so on, I think there was a general consensus to go forward. I think we erred on the side of caution by going, lowering the men''s start down to the women''s start. It would be easer to keep the women and the doubles at the start but we decided to go ahead and proactively move them down as well, just once again to create an emotional comfort level.\"\u003cbr/\u003e14. Romstad during interview\u003cbr/\u003e15. SOUNDBITE (English) Svein Romstad, Secretary-General of International Luge Federation:\u003cbr/\u003e\"So I think that we have done the measures that we can and it might not be a decision that everybody is happy with but I am very comfortable that we made the right decision.\"\u003cbr/\u003e16. Romstad during interview\u003cbr/\u003e17. SOUNDBITE (English) Svein Romstad, Secretary-General of International Luge Federation:\u003cbr/\u003e\"We already met with Sochi (Russian venue for next Winter Olympics), we''ve already have agreement with them to construct a track where we are very comfortable that the speed is going to be lower. There still going to be high speed but it is going to be lower. So I think we''ve already taken the steps before, but once again this is certain, if this track didn''t exist then another track is the fastest track, and I think it''s Salt Lake, then is Salt Lake too fast and how far do you step back. That''s hard to say but it''s based on the amount of run steps we''ve had and based on the overall, yes, it''s fast but this is not anymore unusual than any other track.\"\u003cbr/\u003e18. Romstad during interview\u003cbr/\u003e19.  SOUNDBITE (English) Svein Romstad, Secretary-General of International Luge Federation:\u003cbr/\u003e\"We consider this track to be safe, it''s a very, very interesting track and our work with (indistinct word) has been over the years and years and years and you know I would never imagine this happen, but we felt very comfortable with all the aspects of the preparations for these games.\"\u003cbr/\u003e20. Romstad during interview\u003cbr/\u003eThe local Catholic community in Whistler, joined by Olympic spectators and visitors, held mass on Sunday, praying for Georgian luger Nodar Kumaritashvili who was killed in a training run on Friday.\u003cbr/\u003eAround 150 people joined Pastor Jerry Desmond in prayer after the dedication when Kumaritashvili''s name was read out along with the names of other people who had recently died in the parish. \u003cbr/\u003eOur Lady of the Mountains, located at the foot of the mountains surrounding the Whistler, is the only denominational building in the small town, host of the Olympic Alpine, Nordic and sliding events. \u003cbr/\u003eOn Sunday, the first Sunday of the Olympics, many of the church goers wore Canadian flags. Some had maple leaves painted on their faces. \u003cbr/\u003eNodar Kumaritashvili, 21, died on Friday when he came around the final curve at nearly 145 kph (90 mph), lost control and was thrown from his sled, over a track wall and into a steel post. \u003cbr/\u003eInternational luge officials decided to make several changes to the Olympic programme after the crash, including having all sliders - men, women and doubles teams - start farther down the track than first planned.\u003cbr/\u003eReminders of Kumaritashvili''s death seemed everywhere, from the reconfigured final curve and raised wall, to the black tape stuck to the helmets of some athletes. \u003cbr/\u003eFlowers were left near the 16th turn where Kumaritashvili died.\u003cbr/\u003eLuge officials announced the men''s competition would begin at the women''s start, a decision they hoped would reduce speeds and lessen the chance for accidents.\u003cbr/\u003eInternational Luge Federation officials said the start change for the men, three turns below normal, was made with the \"emotional component\" of athletes in mind following the death of the 21-year-old Kumaritashvili.\u003cbr/\u003eIt wasn''t the only switch: Later, officials said the women''s and doubles competitions will start even lower, at the junior start position, between the fifth and sixth curves.\u003cbr/\u003eThe spot where he lost his life looked very different on the first full day of competition at the Vancouver Games as track officials, following an investigation and concern about the track''s safety, had the exposed steel posts covered by a 4-metre (12-foot) high wooden wall. \u003cbr/\u003eOthers were wrapped with padding.\u003cbr/\u003eThe contour of the final, sweeping turn, nicknamed \"Thunderbird\" was also changed as workers shaved the thick ice to stop racers from drifting too high onto the curved walls, increasing their chances of crashing.\u003cbr/\u003eSvein Romstad, Secretary-General of International Luge Federation suggested on Sunday that a mistake on the athlete''s part caused Kumaritashvili''s tragic accident.\u003cbr/\u003e\"That is something that every single athlete deals with in this sport and unfortunately this one here was, that small mistake had fatal consequences,\" he said.\u003cbr/\u003eBut the International Olympic Committee and luge officials were harshly criticised for blaming the accident on errors by Kumaritashvili, and for saying they were changing the course not to make it safer but to soothe the emotions of the athletes.\u003cbr/\u003eMeanwhile, some lugers made clear they were unhappy with changes made to the track in the aftermath of the ghastly crash.\u003cbr/\u003e\"I think that we have done the measures that we can and it might not be a decision that everybody is happy with but I am very comfortable that we made the right decision,\" Svein said. \u003cbr/\u003eKumaritashvili''s body will leave on Monday afternoon on a flight to Germany and will then be flown to Georgia, arriving 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