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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 ...
On 12 January 2018, Fanchini announced that she would not compete in the 2018 Winter Olympics at Pyeongchang in order to undergo cancer treatment. That November, she was preparing to return to the World Cup; during training in the United States at Copper Mountain, Colorado, she fell and suffered a fracture of a finger of the hand and a distortion-bruising trauma to the left knee, with fracture ...
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.
Witnesses rushed to contact ski patrol after seeing the incident, deputies said. Skier dies at resort after veering off difficult course and into tree, Arizona cops say Skip to main content
The skiing community is in mourning after professional skier Jean Daniel Pession and his girlfriend, Elisa Arlian, tragically died in a mountain accident on June 1. The Italian Winter Sports ...
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David Poisson (31 March 1982 – 13 November 2017) was a French World Cup alpine ski racer, who specialized in the speed events.He made his World Cup debut in 2004. [1] ...
A skier has died after she fell nearly 600 feet down an icy ravine on Mount Washington in New Hampshire over the weekend, officials say. The woman and two others were backcountry skiing on ...