Athletes Deaths Thread

[Grassmarket 4,062]

British cycling great Barry Hoban, winner of 8 Tour de France stages, all at a time when road racing had a very very low profile in Britain.  

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cycling/articles/c9dj98203nqo

[NearPup 3,505]

 Margot Simond, 18, the current national junior champion in slalom, died in a training accident ahead of a Red Bull event.

 

https://www.lequipe.fr/Ski/Actualites/La-championne-de-france-junior-margot-simond-meurt-a-18-ans-lors-d-un-entrainement-a-val-d-isere/1556748

Edited April 24 by NearPup

[heywoodu 16,016]

1 hour ago, NearPup said:

 Margot Simond, 18, the current national junior champion in slalom, died in a training accident ahead of a Red Bull event.

 

https://www.lequipe.fr/Ski/Actualites/La-championne-de-france-junior-margot-simond-meurt-a-18-ans-lors-d-un-entrainement-a-val-d-isere/1556748

Damn...

 

That's Clement Noel's Red Bull event of Sunday I think? 

[NearPup 3,505]

1 hour ago, heywoodu said:

Damn...

 

That's Clement Noel's Red Bull event of Sunday I think? 

Yes.

 

The event has been cancelled due to the accident.

[Dragon 2,031]

Sir Andrew Ogilvy-Wedderburn, the 7th Baronet of Balindean

died early this month aged 72.

He was a bobsleigh Olympian for Great Britain in 1976 and 1980.

Proves not even aristocrats can live forever...

[phelps 8,302]

at the age of 84, we mourn the loss of  Jair Da Costa, more known as simply Jair (aka "the black arrow"), football star in the Sixties, mainly with FC Internazionale Milano, where he played 10 years, winning 4 national titles, 2 Champions Cups and 2 Intercontinental Cups

[Monzanator 4,783]

Jochen Mass (motor racing) passed away at the age of 78 - only few days after the 50th anniversary of his only Formula 1 Grand Prix win.

[heywoodu 16,016]

Horrible accident at the last British Supersport race of the weekend yesterday at Oulton Park. Roughly ten riders sustained certain injuries, Shane Richardson (29) and young Owen Jenner (21) didn't survive..

[Dragon 2,031]

Fijian rugby player Josaia Raisque, silver medalist in Paris 2024, was killed when his car was hit by a train at a level crossing in France today

[Dragon 2,031]

Harry Bjerke, a judge at the 2004 Olympics in gymnastics, died today at the age of 80