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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 ...
He died in a snowboarding accident at Whiteface Mountain in Lake Placid, New York, five days after his 26th birthday. It was the last run he had planned for the day. He lost his balance in midair and fell, breaking his femur and ribs, and suffering a fatal ripped aorta and punctured lung and heart. [citation needed]
Andrew Weibrecht (born February 10, 1986) is a former World Cup alpine ski racer and two-time Olympic medalist from the United States.. Born in Lake Placid, New York, he grew up racing at nearby Whiteface Mountain.
Related: 12-Year-Old Boy Dies in Ski Accident on New Hampshire Mountain: 'Tragic Loss' Kemp was a cross-country and men’s track and field distance runner at Williams College.
A 19-year-old college student died on Tuesday in Massachusetts after a skiing accident. Alex Kemp, a Williams College freshman from New Jersey, was skiing at the Jiminy Peak Mountain Resort in ...
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The Men's Downhill competition of the 1980 Winter Olympics at Lake Placid was held at Whiteface Mountain on Thursday, February 14. [1] [2] [3]The defending world champion was Josef Walcher of Austria, while Switzerland's Peter Müller was the defending World Cup downhill champion and led the 1980 World Cup.
By RYAN GORMAN Two U.S. Ski Team prospects died Monday in an avalanche. Ronnie Berlack, 20, and Bryce Astle, 19, died while training in Soelden, Austria ahead of the start of the first leg of the ...