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FILE - United States' Mikaela Shiffrin celebrates after winning a women's World Cup slalom skiing event in Are, Sweden, Sunday, March 10, 2024.
Skiing: US 2008/9 39 57,000,000 days skiing 0.7 per day Ski-injury.com [17] [unreliable source] Skydiving: US 2000–2016 413 48,600,000 jumps 8 per jump USPA [18] UK 1994–2013 41 4,864,268 jumps 8 per jump BPA [19] BASE jumping: Kjerag Massif, Norway 1995–2005 9 20,850 jumps 430 per jump Soreide 2007 [20] Mountaineering: Ascent to ...
Studies from Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Norway and Canada show that the proportion of head injuries is estimated at 15% for ski injuries and 16% for snowboard injuries. [ 1 ] 74% of head injuries occur when skiers hit their head on the snow, 10% when they collide with other skiers, and 13% when they collide with fixed objects.
Mikaela Shiffrin avoided serious injury Friday when she crashed into the safety nets during a World Cup downhill run on the course that will also host the 2026 Milan-Cortina Olympics.
Two-time Olympic champion Mikaela Shiffrin says she will return to World Cup alpine skiing on January 30, exactly two months after she was injured in a hard fall.
All cases in the list below are from alpine or downhill skiing activities; no skiers have been known to have died during any cross-country event, or in any major international ski jumping competitions (e.g. FIS Ski Jumping World Cup, FIS Ski Jumping Continental Cup, FIS Nordic World Ski Championships, and the Olympic Games), though many ski ...
An avalanche swept up skiers at Lake Tahoe's largest ski resort on Jan. 10, 2024, as a 150-foot-wide sheet of snow slid down a mountain slope into a pile 10 feet deep.
The men's downhill in the 2024 FIS Alpine Skiing World Cup consisted of eight events. The season had been planned with thirteen downhills, but two scheduled downhills on 11/12 November 2023 on the Matterhorn, running from Switzerland into Italy (), were canceled for the second straight year, this time due to heavy snowfall and high winds (unlike the year before, when the cancellation was due ...