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Snowboarder Suffocates after Falling Head First into Snow Drift in the French Alps

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A British snowboarder has suffocated after falling into a snow-drift in the French Alps, authorities there say, reports the BBC. The 25-year-old man, who has not been named, was discovered buried head-first in an off-piste area near the Meribel ski resort in France on Wednesday. He was uncovered after two skiers alerted emergency services to a snowboard sticking out of […]
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Surfer Who was Attacked by TWO Sharks Took up Snowboarding in 2015 as Part of Recovery | Competed in Paralympics on Monday

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Australian Sean Pollard’s life was changed in just a couple of minutes when he was attacked by TWO Great White sharks while surfing in Esperance in October 2014, losing his left arm and his right hand in his struggle to escape, reports the Guardian. As a result of the attack, he needed seven blood transfusions amounting to three liters of […]
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Search for Snowboarder Buried Under Alaska Avalanche Hampered by Bad Weather

Monday’s bad weather is hampering the search for a 39-year-old Alaska snowboarder, who was buried by an avalanche, reports ktuu.com. State Troopers say Marvin Scott of Ketchikan was caught in an avalanche, reported to be 100 yards wide by 1,500 yards long, while snowboarding on Sunday. Scott and another man were snowboarding on Dude Mountain outside Ketchikan in southeast Alaska […]
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Snowboarder Wins Gold in Women’s Skiing Super-G on Skis Borrowed from Mikaela Shiffrin

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Snowboarder Ester Ledecka came to the PyeongChang Games planning to make history as the first person to compete at the Olympics in both skiing and snowboarding. Instead, she shocked the world, and herself, with an astonishing upset victory in the women’s super-G. “I thought they were going to put a couple more seconds on my time,” Ledecka later said, laughing and […]
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VIDEO: Austrian Snowboarder Breaks Neck During Race | Completes Race and Waves to Crowd as Crosses Line

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Austrian snowboarder Markus Schairer broke his neck during the men’s cross quarterfinals at the Pyeongchang Olympics on Thursday, reports NPR. Schairer fractured his fifth cervical vertebra during the fall, according to a statement from the Austrian Olympic Committee shortly after the accident. “The good news: Neurological impairments are not present, consequential damage can currently be ruled out,” wrote the committee. […]
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