Swedish snowboarder dies during practice @ Whiteface

[takeahike46er]

link:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11796381/

 

[AdironRider]

Sad news after a great event yesterday watching the olypians rip the pipe.

 

[smootharc]

Wow...

...from the report it's amazing he dies of the internal injuries not hitting anything other than the trail. Sounds freaky, and scary.

Do those guys generally wear the under armor/body armor ?

 

[highpeaksdrifter]

It was kind of a freak accident. Two frinds of mine saw it happen. The boarders where going through the course one behind the other as is normal in warmups. He went off a jump at a relatively slow speed. When he went behind the jump he was out of my friends view. The next time they saw him he was laying on his back. I'm told he broke vertabre in his back and it went through his aorta. He went in full cardiac arrest. It was a sad day at WF yesterday.