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jmowreader

(51,601 posts)
Tue Dec 24, 2024, 05:34 PM 15 hrs ago

Swiss Olympic snowboarder Sophie Hediger dies in avalanche on closed slope

https://snowbrains.com/snowboarder-tragedy-in-arosa-switzerland-as-avalanche-claims-life-of-26-year-old-woman/#google_vignette

Sophie competed in the 2022 Olympics, and in three FIS Snowboard World Cups, all in the discipline of snowboard cross. What this is: the event organizer builds a narrow snowboard trail with lots of obstacles, jumps and turns that make it very hard to navigate, then they put four to six snowboarders on it and the competitors race each other to the bottom.

On Monday, December 23, Sophie and a friend were at the Arosa Lenzerheide Ski Resort in Switzerland. The black-diamond Run 12 had been closed to guests due to extreme avalanche risk. They crossed the barricades, went out on the hill, and the avalanche the resort was worried about happened. Her friend made it out but she was killed by the avalanche.
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Swiss Olympic snowboarder Sophie Hediger dies in avalanche on closed slope (Original Post) jmowreader 15 hrs ago OP
... regnaD kciN 15 hrs ago #1
RIP Sophie Hediger FakeNoose 14 hrs ago #2
... Talitha 14 hrs ago #3
Sad ... R-I-P nt Raine 14 hrs ago #4
:( sakabatou 13 hrs ago #5
: ( Awful. Strength to all who will miss her. electric_blue68 9 hrs ago #6
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