THE SIDELINES : 3 Doctors Cited in Skier’s Death

Three doctors have been indicted on manslaughter charges in the 1985 death of Italian downhill skier Leonardo David.

David died Feb. 26, 1985, after six years in a coma, following a fall at the pre-Olympic trials in Lake Placid, N.Y., on March 3, 1979.

The indictment handed down Monday said doctors should not have allowed David to compete because of injuries he suffered in a fall at Cortina, Italy, two weeks earlier.

Indicted were the neosurgeon who examined David after his fall at Cortina, the president of the medical committee of the Italian Federation of Winter Sports and a doctor who accompanied the team to Lake Placid.

They are accused of “negligence, imprudence and unskillfulness.”