Norwegian snowboarder dies
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Snowboarder Line Oestvold, who became the first Norwegian ever to win a World Cup event this past February, died Sunday after sustaining head and neck injuries in a fall during a training session in Chile.
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INNSBRUCK -- An avalanche killed two skiers and seriously injured another yesterday, and specialists warned that recent storms have created unstable conditions ripe for more snowslides in Austria's Alps. A 41-year-old American and a 39-year-old German died in an avalanche in Lech am Arlberg in the southwestern province of Vorarlberg that also critically injured the American's wife, also 41, the ...
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Sir Edmund Hillary, who gained worldwide fame after he and guide Tenzing Norgay became the first people to reach the summit of Mount Everest, has died, according to New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark.
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New Zealand's Sir Edmund Hillary, who along with Nepal's Tenzing Norgay Sherpa became the first to conquer Mount Everest, died in hospital on Friday. He was 88.
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A UK snowboarder has died after spending a night trapped at the bottom of a 150m-deep canyon, German police have said.
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MOOSE JAW, Sask. (CP) - One pilot from the Canadian Forces' famed Snowbirds team was killed Friday and a second suffered minor injuries in a mid-air collision between two jets during a routine training flight in Saskatchewan.
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Two-time gold medalist and former U.S. Rep. Bob Mathias has died, the United States Olympic Committee said Saturday.
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Police found the body of a 16-year-old skier who had suffocated after a bad fall in deep snow Monday, bringing the death toll from weekend avalanches and skiing accidents to eight.
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An avalanche killed a backcountry skier in the mountains west of Big Sky, the Gallatin National Forest Avalanche Center said.
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US-born chess legend Bobby Fischer has died in Iceland at the age of 64, his close friend Gardar Sverrisson told AFP on Friday.
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A ninth person died Monday after a new bus carrying skiers home from a Colorado resort plunged off a damp, twisting highway in southeastern Utah and landed 41 feet below with its tires ripped away and the roof destroyed.
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Figure skating Two-time US champion Christopher Bowman , figure skating's "Bowman the Showman," was found dead at 40 in a Los Angeles-area motel. According to authorities, Bowman, the national titlist in 1989 and '92, died of a possible drug overdose. Bowman, a two-time world medalist, also competed in the 1988 and '92 Winter Olympics, finishing seventh and fourth, respectively.
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ARE, Sweden  - Aksel Lund Svindal became the first Norwegian downhill world champion on Sunday with a golden run at the Alpine skiing world championships.
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NOTRE-DAME-DE-MESAGE, France  - At least 26 Polish pilgrims died on Sunday when their coach crashed off a mountain road at a notorious accident blackspot in the French Alps and burst into flames, police and officials said.
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An anti-nuclear protester has died in France after being run over by a train carrying nuclear waste from France to Germany. The 21-year-old man had chained himself to train tracks near the northeast city of
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The man who 13 years ago discovered the frozen remains of a prehistoric iceman in an Alpine glacier was found dead in the Austrian Alps on Saturday, eight days after he went missing, rescue authorities said.
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Bob Mathias, a two-time Olympic champion in the decathlon and former U.S. congressman, died Saturday. He was 75.