Archive for May, 2009



French snowboard champ Ruby dies in fall: police (TODAYonline)

Saturday 30 May 2009 @ 10:05 am

French former Olympic snowboard champion Karine Ruby, seen here in 2006, has been found dead following a fall on Mont Blanc, French police said on Friday.

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SNOWBOARD: FRANCIA, OLIMPIONICA RUBY MUORE SU MONTE BIANCO (ITNews)

Saturday 30 May 2009 @ 9:05 am

Parigi, 29 mag. - (Adnkronos) - La francese Karine Ruby, 31enne campionessa olimpica di snowboard nel 1998, ha perso la vita in un incidente in montagna. La Ruby, come ha reso noto la polizia dell’Alta Savoia, e’ precipitata in un crepaccio a Tour de Ronde, sul massiccio del Monte Bianco.

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Former Olympic snowboard champion Karine Ruby dies at 31 in Mount Blanc climbing accident (KFSM Ft. Smith-Fayetteville)

Saturday 30 May 2009 @ 8:05 am

CHAMONIX, France (AP) — Former Olympic snowboard champion Karine Ruby has died in a climbing accident on France’s famed Mont Blanc. She was 31.

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Ex-Olympic snowboard champ killed (The Malaysian Insider)

Saturday 30 May 2009 @ 8:05 am

PARIS, May 29 — Former snowboard Olympic champion Karine Ruby of France has died following a mountain accident, the French Skiing Federation (FFS) said today. “It happened in the afternoon, she is dead,” a FFS spokeswoman told Reuters without elaborating. Ruby, 31, won the giant slalom gold medal in the 1998 Olympics in Nagano. She also had six snowboard world champion titles to her name. — …

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Snowboard star dies on Mont Blanc (BBC News)

Saturday 30 May 2009 @ 8:05 am

Former French Olympic snowboard champion Karine Ruby dies in a mountain accident in the Alps, French police say.

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French snowboard champ Ruby dies in fall: police (AFP via Yahoo! News)

Saturday 30 May 2009 @ 8:05 am

French former Olympic snowboard champion Karine Ruby has been found dead following a fall on Mont Blanc, French police said on Friday.

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Snowboard champ Ruby, 31, dies in climbing fall (Sports Illustrated)

Saturday 30 May 2009 @ 7:05 am

CHAMONIX, France (AP) — Karine Ruby, a former Olympic snowboarding champion who had been training to become a mountain guide, died Friday in a climbing accident on France’s Mont Blanc range, a French police official said. She was 31.

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Former Olympic snowboard champion dies in climbing accident (Colorado Springs Gazette)

Saturday 30 May 2009 @ 7:05 am

CHAMONIX, France - Former Olympic snowboard champion Karine Ruby has died in a climbing accident on France’s famed Mont Blanc. She was 31. Police say Ruby was roped to other climbers when she fell into a deep crack Friday. Other climbers also fell, but police provided no further details.

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Olympic snowboard champ Ruby dies in climb (Long Beach Press-Telegram)

Saturday 30 May 2009 @ 7:05 am

CHAMONIX, France - Former Olympic snowboard champion Karine Ruby has died in a climbing accident on France’s famed Mont Blanc.

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Erich Sailer honored by USSA (Ski Racing)

Thursday 28 May 2009 @ 10:05 am

PARK CITY, UT (May 26) - Longtime ski coach Erich Sailer, who has coached over 20,000 athletes including Lindsey Vonn (Vail, CO) at Buck Hill Ski Racing Club, will have his name memorialized in the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association’s new national training and education center, the Center of Excellence.

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