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USA skier Nina O'Brien falls in the second run of the women's giant slalom during the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games. (Joe Klamar/AFP via Getty Images) (JOE KLAMAR via Getty Images)
Instead, Olympic champion Sara Hector of Sweden took home the first place title in the 2024/25 World Cup with a combined winning time of 1:53.08. ... a crash like that after she was skiing so well.
Italian skier Matilde Lorenzi has died after a crash during a training session, the country’s defense ministry announced Tuesday, Oct. 29. Lorenzi was 19 years old. Lorenzi was 19 years old.
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 ...
Bogataj returned to ski jumping in 1971 but never duplicated the success he had before the crash and retired from the sport competitively, save for occasional senior competitions thereafter. During his career, his best career finish was 57th in the individual normal hill competition in Bischofshofen in 1969 during that year's Four Hills ...
Leading up to the 1994 Winter Olympics, Lee-Gartner was admittedly affected by the death of her friend Ulrike Maier after a crash in a downhill race in late January. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] At the Olympics in Norway, she finished eighth in the super-G and 19th in the downhill , and retired from international competition a month later, at the end of the ...
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.
USA's Nina O'Brien is given medical treatment after a crash during the women's giant alalom skiing event at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic Games at National Alpine Skiing Centre in Yanqing, China.