Oberhof (pps) The search for a location of the combined luge and bobsleigh track has still not come to an end for the organizers of the 2014 Olympic Winter Games in Sotchi, Russia. After protests from the environment protection organization Greenpeace, the site which was presented when the Games were awarded by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) is to be changed because the habitat of Caucasian bears is endangered there.

„The Sotchi organizing committee has come up with altogether seven proposals for a new location. Too high downhill grades, however, make all of them unsuitable. This was discovered during an inspection carried out by two experts from our joint track construction commission with the international bobsleigh federation FIBT", said Josef Fendt, the President of the International Luge Federation (FIL) during his federation’s media seminar recently held in Oberhof. For the FIL, Markus Aschauer, head of the artificial track in Königssee took part in the inspection. Fendt: „The FIL is not to blame for the problems occurring in connection with the track’s location.”