Pulling off a ski-jump may look easy on television, but everyone had to be nervous on their very first attempt. From atop a tall, icy slope, you can hear little Zia talking nervously to herself as she gets ready for her first big jump. “I’ll be fine. I’ll do it,” she tells herself convincingly. Still, [...]

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UPDATE: 5 skiers are confirmed dead, 1 missing. Six tourists have been buried in an avalanche in Norway, according to local authorities. The avalanche trapped about half of a group of 12 skiers in Kaafjord, with unconfirmed reports indicating that they may be from France. The police chief of Tromso says that the avalanche took [...]

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Patrick Schwarzenegger, the 18-year-old son of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver, was rushed to a local hospital on a stretcher Saturday after a ski accident in Sun Valley, Idaho. Patrick, an actor, model and entrepreneur, tweeted about his injuries late Saturday night. “Little ski accident today,” he wrote. “Some bruises and stiches down back and [...]

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Canadian skier Nick Zoricic died from severe head injuries after crashing in a World Cup skicross event today, according to the International Ski Federation. Zoricic, 29, died as a result of “severe neurotrauma,” the federation said in a prepared statement. Zoricic crashed hard into safety nets that lined the side of the course after going [...]

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A pair of deadly avalanches near Washington state ski resorts killed four people today.  Eight others who were originally thought missing were found alive, according to local. Three skiers were killed when an avalanche struck near the Stevens Pass ski area in the Cascade Mountains, said King County Sheriff’s spokeswoman Sergeant Cindi West. She said [...]

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Dutch Prince Johan Friso was critically injured and hospitalized today after an avalanche buried him while skiing in the Austrian alps, according to police. The 43-year-old prince, middle son of Queen Beatrix, was in the intensive care unit at Innsbruck‘s University clinic. “After the emergency call, rescue crews were on the scene with rescue helicopters. [...]

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A tragic turn for Sarah Burke, as the freestyle skier died today from injuries sustained in that horrific January 10 accident at Park City Mountain Resort. Burke was training for upcoming winter events on the resort’s Eagle Superpipe when she crashed and struck her head. The impact from the crash caused a rupture in one [...]

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Canadian freestyle skier Sarah Burke is in a medically-induced coma after crashing on a half-pipe training course in Park City, Utah on Tuesday. Peter Judge, CEO of the Canadian freestyle team, confirmed that the 29-year-old Olympic skier was in a coma after the accident left her in critical condition. UPDATE: Sarah Burke has died “What [...]

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It’s all over for Olympic gold medalist Lindsey Vonn and her husband of four years, Thomas Vonn. The two are getting a divorce and Vonn says she’ll keep her married name. The star skier has confirmed that the couple has begun divorce proceedings. Thomas Vonn, who said he filed for divorce last week, will no [...]

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18-year-old Robert “Sandy” Vietze, of Warren, Vermont, has been booted from the U.S. ski team after getting drunk and urinating on an 11-year-girl on a JetBlue flight, wiping out his hopes of competing in the 2014 Winter Olympics in Russia. Vietze was on the Wednesday flight because he was returning to Vermont from an Oregon [...]

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Here’s a marketing tactic you certainly don’t see every day. With a massive avalanche closing in, Matthias Giraud and Stefan Laude BASE jump off a cliff in the name of promoting the HD Hero Camera from GoPro. These two hit the Alps like true heroes skiing the French backcountry while escaping a massive that’s hot [...]

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This is a list of things that will help remind skiers how to prepare for the ski season and to remind non-skiers why they do not ski. Here is a list of exercises to get you prepared: More here: Funny Lists 16. Visit your local butcher and pay $30 to sit in the walk-in freezer [...]

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