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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.
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 ...
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 ...
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.
Police in Tokyo are reported to be investigating the death on Monday of Moriya Yasushi, a senior member of the Japan Olympic Committee. Citing police sources, Nippon Television reported that ...
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.
Helen Smart, a former Olympic swimmer for Great Britain, has died. She was 43. Worsley Mesnes Community Primary School in Wigan, England, confirmed the loss in a Facebook statement on Aug. 13. "It ...
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.