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On December 17, 2009, VanderBeek saw her season end along with her 2010 Winter Olympic dream when she suffered from a torn ACL, posterior cruciate ligament (PCL), medial collateral ligament (MCL), and a tibial plateau fracture in her left knee after a crash on the second downhill training run at a World Cup in Val d'Isère, France.
In addition, another 16 participants have died at the Olympics from other causes; 11 of these deaths were from the Munich massacre. Several incidents related to the Olympics have caused the death of non-participants. Large numbers were killed during the Lima football riot of 1964 and the Tlatelolco massacre in Mexico City in 1968.
Car crash. [38] 21 Jan 2007: Maria Cioncan Romania: 29: 1500 metres: Car accident. [39] 3 Nov 2007: Ryan Shay United States: 28: Marathon: Collapsed during the U.S. marathon trials for the 2008 Olympics, died due to heart failure and cardiac arrhythmia. [40] 16 Jun 2008: Tom Compernolle Belgium: 32: 5000 metres: Car accident. [41] 29 Aug 2010 ...
Follow Fox News Digital’s sports coverage on X, and subscribe to the Fox News Sports Huddle newsletter. Original article source: Olympic gold medalist says DC plane crash hits home as an athlete ...
Davis, a 2014 Olympic figure skating champion and 2010 silver medalist, also took to her Instagram Story on Thursday with a lengthy tribute. "My heart is shattered thinking of those sweet young ...
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 ...
As a group of young figure skaters left Wichita, Kan., late on Wednesday, Jan. 29, they “likely felt closer to their Olympic dream than they ever had before,” 2010 gold medalist Evan Lysacek says.
Own the Podium—2010 / À nous le podium en 2010! was a Canadian sport technical program launched in January 2005 to prepare Canada to become the top winter sporting nation in the world by the 2010 Winter Olympics. The main aspect of the scheme that caused controversy was the priority of Canadian competitors in conducting practice runs of ...