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All cases in the list below are from alpine or downhill skiing activities; no skiers have been known to have died during any cross-country event, or in any major international ski jumping competitions (e.g. FIS Ski Jumping World Cup, FIS Ski Jumping Continental Cup, FIS Nordic World Ski Championships, and the Olympic Games), though many ski ...
Martin Bell (born 6 December 1964, RAF Akrotiri, Cyprus) is a British former World Cup alpine ski racer. [1] Bell was educated at George Watson's College in Edinburgh and the Stams Schigymnasium in Austria. He competed in four Winter Olympics from 1984 to 1994, placing eighth in the downhill at the 1988 Games in Calgary, Canada – the best ...
Ski Flying World Cup: Arthur Khamidulin: Ski flying debut. Lost control during landing, flipping over head-first past the outrun. Inrun speed was 100.3 km/h (62.3 mph). Stretchered away and continued his career until a second crash in Vikersund, in 2000. [16] 28 Feb 1998: Vikersund: Ski Flying World Cup: Tommy Egeberg: Crashed at the top of the ...
The news of the teenager's death sparked emotive reactions from Italy and the skiing world at large. U.S. skiing star Mikaela Shiffrin reacted to the news on social media by posting three broken ...
"Nobody else could give me that hope. Nobody else could give me that optimism. It was something that had to come from within"
Mikaela Shiffrin avoided serious injury Friday when she crashed into the safety nets during a World Cup downhill run on the course that will also host the 2026 Milan-Cortina Olympics.
Rising Italian skiing star Matilde Lorenzi has died after suffering injuries during training. She was 19. “The International Ski and Snowboard Federation extends its deepest condolences ...
This was the best Olympic result for a British alpine skier since Martin Bell's eighth place in the men's downhill in 1988. [36] [37] He went on the finish the season 11th in the World Cup slalom standings, closing his season with a top 20 finish in Kranjska Gora in March after the World Cup finals were cancelled due to high winds. [38]