WHISTLER, British Columbia  As the Olympic sliding sports schedule moves from luge to skeleton to bobsled, a constant remains: The competitors will hurl themselves down the icy chute of the Whistler Sliding Centre, billed as the fastest track in the world, where a luge athlete from the Republic of Georgia was killed last week in a training crash.

Olympic officials and the sport’s international governing body responded to the death of Nodar Kumaritashvili by shortening the course to reduce speeds. However, no such precautions will be taken for skeleton and bobsled, which can also attain speeds in excess of 85 miles per hour and have had their share of violent crashes, including dozens on this track since it opened two years ago.

Those sports are governed by an international federation known as the F.I.B.T., which is separate from the International Luge Federation. The bobsled and skeleton federation said shortening the course was not an option.

“Bobsled and skeleton need a running start,” the group’s spokesman, Don Krone, said. “For competitions, there are no other starts than at the top.”