London (pps) At the Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver, luge figured among five other sports with the lowest possible risk of injuries. This is the result of a medical study that was now published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine. Despite the fatal accident of Nodar Kumaritashvili, luge counted among the lowest-risk sports - together with Nordic skiing, curling, speed skating and freestyle moguls - with less than five percent of athletes being injured at the Olympic Games. „My impression from before and looking at all the statistics from the sport of luge is, that they did not have many injuries”, said Professor Lars Engebretsen, one of the authors of the study that was funded by the International Olympic Committee, IOC. “This fatal accident was very, very unusual”, Engebretsen continued. The study reported a total of 287 injuries among the 2,567 athletes who competed in Vancouver. The findings are based upon the reports from 82 national team doctors as well as the designated Olympic medical centers in Vancouver and Whistler. According to the study, the highest-risk sports in Vancouver were snowboardcross, boblsleigh, ice hockey, short-track speed skating as well as Alpine and Freestyle skiing where between 15 and 35 percent of athletes were injured.