BeretBleu 138 Posted November 13, 2017 French skier David Poisson is dead after a fall during a training. https://www.lequipe.fr/Ski/Actualites/Le-skieur-francais-david-poisson-est-mort/850454 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Creep 7,070 Posted November 13, 2017 3 hours ago, BeretBleu said: French skier David Poisson is dead after a fall during a training. https://www.lequipe.fr/Ski/Actualites/Le-skieur-francais-david-poisson-est-mort/850454 Oh c'mon. It's too easy, I can't even say it. Should I? No I just can't.... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Thatcher 2,386 Posted December 17, 2017 Len Ceglarski, American ice hockey player who was part of the Silver medal winning team at the 1952 Oslo Olympics, has died aged 91. He went on to coach and was inducted into the US Hockey Hall of Fame in 1992. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Creep 7,070 Posted January 2, 2018 Still don't understand the necessity of breaking out the Winter Olympics from the Olympic Deaths thread (**thread whoring** cough cough), but I'll play along. Wendall “Chummy” Broomhall, an Olympian, one of the most decorated skiers in Maine history, died Saturday at the Maine Veterans’ Home in South Paris. He was 98. Broomhall competed in the 1948 Winter Games in St. Moritz, Switzerland, and in the 1952 Games in Oslo, Norway. SC Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Predictor 1,018 Posted January 4, 2018 Here's some info about my DDP pick Jonny Nilsson, a Swedish 1964 ice skating olympic gold medalist. He was born in 1943 and was a candidate for the 2009 European Parliament election in Sweden. Excerpts from an article from 30 Nov 2017 (with my own sloppy translation): *The skating world champion has incurable cancer *The prostate cancer was discovered too late and has spread to the bone *Jonny Nilsson, 74, doesn't regret not taking a PSA-test earlier *Was a top athlete in the 1960s, and won a World Cup gold, a World Cup bronze and an Olympic gold in ice skating. He set 5 world records and was pronounced the best Nordic athlete in 1964 *Discovered in the summer of 2017 that he had several tumours on his back bone, and metastasis in the skull bone and in one of his hips *His PSA-value was 1000 *Treatments include castrate medicine & estrogen *His disease described by the article as "deadly" https://www.aftonbladet.se/nyheter/a/9mlP5p/varldsmastaren-i-skridsko-har-obotlig-cancer-jag-har-haft-ett-fantas 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Creep 7,070 Posted April 3, 2018 Bob Beattie, who coached the United States men's skiing team to its first Olympic medals in the 1960s, has died. He was 85. As U.S. coach from 1961 to 1969, Beattie -- known as "Beats" or "Coach" to friends -- helped Billy Kidd (silver) and Jimmie Heuga (bronze) to medals in the men's slalom at the 1964 Winter Olympics. SC Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Grim Up North 3,725 Posted July 30, 2018 Vibeke Skofterud dead at 38 in a jet ski accident Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Thatcher 2,386 Posted August 3, 2018 Viktor Tyumenev, Soviet Ice Hockey player who won Gold at the 1984 Sarajevo Olympics, has died aged 62. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Creep 7,070 Posted August 3, 2018 1 hour ago, Thatcher said: Viktor Tyumenev, Soviet Ice Hockey player who won Gold at the 1984 Sarajevo Olympics, has died aged 62. Not much of a source, but an English language version nonetheless. The Bobr Times will be happy to have been used as a journalistic source on this site, if only once.https://bobrtimes.com/died-soviet-hockey-player-olympic-champion/81085/ 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
alt obits guy 3,371 Posted November 5, 2018 Keith Christiansen, who was a member of the 1972 U.S. silver medal-winning hockey team, has died. He was 74. https://www.duluthnewstribune.com/sports/hockey/4524629-bulldog-great-keith-huffer-christensen-dies-hospital Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Creep 7,070 Posted November 6, 2018 15 hours ago, alt obits guy said: Keith Christiansen, who was a member of the 1972 U.S. silver medal-winning hockey team, has died. He was 74. https://www.duluthnewstribune.com/sports/hockey/4524629-bulldog-great-keith-huffer-christensen-dies-hospital Interesting this guy never made the cut for an NHL franchise. Just two years in WHA. Univ Minn-Deluth a pretty powerful squad (now, maybe not then so much) and his was first jersey number retired -- amazing he didn't get to the NHL 'for a cup of coffee' (a real short time). Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
alt obits guy 3,371 Posted November 6, 2018 29 minutes ago, Sir Creep said: Interesting this guy never made the cut for an NHL franchise. Just two years in WHA. Univ Minn-Deluth a pretty powerful squad (now, maybe not then so much) and his was first jersey number retired -- amazing he didn't get to the NHL 'for a cup of coffee' (a real short time). He appears to have never been drafted. Barring free agency signing, I guess it was the WHA or nothing. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Old Crem 3,582 Posted January 17, 2019 https://www.cbc.ca/sports/olympics/canadian-snowboarder-max-parrot-1.4981689 Max Parrot diagnosed with Hodgkin's lymphoma at 24. Early stage through. Sad news. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
alt obits guy 3,371 Posted February 4, 2019 Matti Nykanen, a two-time Olympic gold medalist and a ski jumping legend, has died. He was 55. Nykanen was an Olympic champion for Finland in 1984 and 1988. https://newsbeezer.com/swedeneng/matti-nykanen-dead-the-finnish-legend-was-55-years-old/ 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 10,966 Posted February 4, 2019 2 minutes ago, alt obits guy said: Matti Nykanen, a two-time Olympic gold medalist and a ski jumping legend, has died. He was 55. Nykanen was an Olympic champion for Finland in 1984 and 1988. https://newsbeezer.com/swedeneng/matti-nykanen-dead-the-finnish-legend-was-55-years-old/ Sad! Ski jumping's troubled genius. Always someone destined for an early exit, and someone you occasionally looked up how bad they were looking now. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Skinny kiltrunner 553 Posted February 4, 2019 7 minutes ago, alt obits guy said: Matti Nykanen, a two-time Olympic gold medalist and a ski jumping legend, has died. He was 55. Nykanen was an Olympic champion for Finland in 1984 and 1988. https://newsbeezer.com/swedeneng/matti-nykanen-dead-the-finnish-legend-was-55-years-old/ Jeez, I actually saw this guy at Calgary 88. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bladan 293 Posted February 4, 2019 His one-liners became popular. "Life is the best time we have." "Every chance is a possibility!" "Odds are 50-60 what happens." "When you jump, you're up there quite up yours". "Whenever I jump I get a bon-voyage feeling." "Tomorrow is always future". "It's pussy what's always on my mind but let's jump first" Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bladan 293 Posted February 5, 2019 Nykanen's final one-liner was "I understand that but my brain does not" Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Creep 7,070 Posted February 5, 2019 On 04/02/2019 at 03:30, bladan said: His one-liners became popular. "Life is the best time we have." "Every chance is a possibility!" "Odds are 50-60 what happens." "When you jump, you're up there quite up yours". "Whenever I jump I get a bon-voyage feeling." "Tomorrow is always future". "It's pussy what's always on my mind but let's jump first" Some good quotes there. He's the Yogi Berra of Finland! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bladan 293 Posted February 5, 2019 1 hour ago, Sir Creep said: Some good quotes there. He's the Yogi Berra of Finland! Also "Life is laiffii", "Love is like a ball of wool, it starts and ends", "I don't recommend antabus for anyone! When you're on it and drink, you feel absolutely awful", "I don't fall into the trap of acquiring prosperity", "Perhaps I was drunk, perhaps not, who cares so not I can jump" ('so not' has become a popular expression in Finland), "There are two kinds of people. Some take drugs, some are athletes, some bring themselves to their end and some just sleep. I belong to the part who sleep, do sports, make love and beat themselves, and perhaps you are bound to hit another people while doing that.", "I am a Russian although I don't wear red, I'm a communist but just act to do so. In reality I am a human being who walks and talks on the phone", "That's it, we buy potatoes in spring but elsewhere they buy them in autumn", "Your question sounds like a question", "Let's take a film like a film. When a film is made, it's a film.", "What's hasn't been done cannot be undone" and "I'm neither gay nor lesbian. Everything between goes" Which one do you find his best? His "Your question sounds like a question" is a good one. It buys you some time to think, it's always a good answer. The best possible answer in fact. I'm going to use that. I like also "What's hasn't been done cannot be undone" – it could be the Final Truth . 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
charon 4,943 Posted February 5, 2019 Whit a Life. * forget the 6 marriages, all the arrests and jail time, the being a pop star, stripper or even being on a Best Korea postage stamp. He married a sausage heiress 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
bladan 293 Posted February 5, 2019 35 minutes ago, charon said: Whit a Life. * forget the 6 marriages, all the arrests and jail time, the being a pop star, stripper or even being on a Best Korea postage stamp. He married a sausage heiress One more classic from him "Everyone has eaten sausage. But how many of us have eaten a well overdone Tapola?" Of course that one had nothing to do with his then-wife Tapola, an aging sausage heiress Don't get me wrong, he was a genius. Streets apart from anyone else Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
En Passant 3,741 Posted February 5, 2019 2 hours ago, bladan said: aging sausage heiress Somebody has copied my default online dating site search. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
gcreptile 10,966 Posted July 15, 2019 Sepp Haidacher, coach of the "Cool Runnings" Jamaican bobsleigh team, has died: https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1082035/cool-runnings-coach-dies-at-age-of-78 His role was, somewhat inadequately, portrayed by John Candy in the movie. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TomTomTelekom 3,727 Posted September 3, 2019 Norwegian Biathlete and olympic champion (1998,2002 and 2010) Halvard Hanevold dead at 49 years: https://www.vg.no/sport/skiskyting/i/1ndlqQ/halvard-hanevold-49-er-doed 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
