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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.
Steven Paul Holcomb (April 14, 1980 – May 6, 2017) was an American bobsledder who competed from 1998 until his death in 2017. [1] [2] At the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, he won the four-man bobsled event for the United States, its first gold medal in that event since 1948. [3]
At the time of his death, he was ranked 44th out of 65 competitors in the 2009–10 World Cup season and was regarded as one of the best lugers to come from Georgia. [12] By 31 December 2009, the cut-off date for luge qualifications for the Olympics, Kumaritashvili was ranked 38th overall.
William Dean Johnson (March 30, 1960 – January 21, 2016) was an American World Cup alpine ski racer.By winning the downhill at the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia, Johnson became the first American male to win an Olympic gold medal in alpine skiing and the first racer not from an Alpine country to win an Olympic downhill race.
Peggy Gale Fleming [2] (born July 27, 1948) is a retired American figure skater. [3] She is the 1968 Winter Olympic Champion in the ladies' singles, being the only American gold medalist at these Games, and a three-time World Champion (1966–1968) in the same event.
Wednesday's plane crash that killed a yet-unknown number of U.S. figure skating team members recalls memories of another tragedy nearly 64 years ago.
Leslie Ross Milne (4 October 1944 – 25 January 1964) [1] [2] was an alpine ski racer from Australia.. Entered in the men's downhill at the 1964 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, Milne died of a head injury after he lost control during a training run at Patscherkofel and struck a tree at more than 60 miles per hour.
Recovered well enough win a silver medal with the Austrian national team at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, but retired at the end of the season. [22] 13 Jan 2016: Ski Flying World Championships: Lukas Müller: Crashed during a training round prior to the event in heavy snow and fog, landing on his back after a ski binding came loose in mid-air.