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A British skier has recently died in the French Alps, after falling from a cliff. The news comes only days after after a tragic incident involving the death of a 13-year old boy, on Saturday 24 February. The two unrelated off-piste skiing incidents took place less than one week apart from each other. Yesterday, authorities […]
Quinn Rooney/Getty Images The Winter Olympics concluded on Sunday with the ladies’ 30km mass start classic. Teresa Stadlober of Austria was in a good position to win a medal when she took a wrong turn. The wrong turn took her up a hill and by the time she figured out what happened, she fell from […]
Taking part in the Olympics is undoubtedly exciting, but one group of Canadians went a little too far. A Canadian athlete, his coach, and wife were arrested after getting drunk and stealing a car. After days of competition and gruelling training sessions, David Duncan was caught in a stolen car near the athletes’ village, along […]
Christophe Pallot/Agence Zoom/Getty French Alpine skier Mathieu Faivre was sent home from the Winter Olympics for critical comments of his team. After finishing seventh, behind three teammates, Mathieu, who dates Mikaela Shiffrin, said he only cared about his own result, which he called “a slap in the face.” Mathieu later said in an Instagram post […]
Elizabeth Swaney competed in the ladies’ ski halfpipe on Monday despite being unable to land any real tricks. Swaney qualified for the Olympics through a loophole of sorts — athletes were required a number of top-30 finishes, so she would enter competitions with less than 30 athletes in the field, thus assuring the requirement would be […]
Ker Robertson / Getty On Saturday evening, US skier Gus Kenworthy competed in the men’s slopestyle at the Winter Olympics. Prior to his qualifying run, the 26-year-old grabbed a good luck kiss from his boyfriend Matthew Wilkas. NBC caught and aired the kiss on live TV, which led to a lot of positive chatter on Twitter Kenworthy, […]
Getty Images The contagious norovirus bug that has hit 200 people at the 2018 Winter Olympics has now spread to athletes. Two Swiss freestyle skiers have been affected by the vomiting and diarrhea virus — and one of them is internet famous. Fabian Boesch, who achieved viral fame for riding an esclator handrail this week, […]
Sean M. Haffey/Getty Images Swiss skier Lara Gut didn’t get off to a great start at the 2018 Winter Olympics, crashing into a crowd of photographers in her first run in the Ladies’ Giant Slalom event. Gut appeared to recover from the spill relatively unscathed, as did the photographers who suddenly found themselves in her […]
Tom Pennington/Getty Mikaela Shiffrin has been hailed as the best slalom skier in the world. The 22-year-old is expected to dominate at the 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, where she will be defending her slalom crown from the Sochi Games.See the rest of the story at Business Insider NOW WATCH: I tried Gwyneth […]
Andreas Rentz/Getty Images Norway’s Simen Hegstad Krueger gave the skiathlon field a huge head start when he fell and broke a pole in the first 200 meters, falling to last place with 29 kilometers to go. He picked the other 67 racers off one at a time and with about 5 km to go he […]
