Michelle Posted July 30, 2014 Report Share Posted July 30, 2014 In late May 2009, near the end of her training, she was climbing on Mont Blanc, crossing a glacier on their descent, when she and a man she was tethered to fell into a crevasse and both were killed, despite rescue attempts. :( 3 Olympics and many many World Cup races. I guess this is old news, but I don't remember hearing about it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
www.oldsnowboards.com Posted July 30, 2014 Report Share Posted July 30, 2014 http://www.bomberonline.com/VBulletin/showthread.php?25993-R-I-P-Karine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michelle Posted July 30, 2014 Author Report Share Posted July 30, 2014 Jeez i even searched for it on BOL. Thanks Bryan! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
www.oldsnowboards.com Posted July 30, 2014 Report Share Posted July 30, 2014 Happy to help. The Forum search still isn't really working very well. Use Google with the site:bomberonline.com tag , it will show several mentions over the years. https://www.google.com/search?q=Karine+Ruby+site%3Abomberonline.com&rlz=1C1CHFX_enUS571US572&oq=Karine+Ruby+site%3Abomberonline.com&aqs=chrome..69i57.7558j0j8&sourceid=chrome&es_sm=122&ie=UTF-8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Karol Posted July 31, 2014 Report Share Posted July 31, 2014 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/30/sports/30karine.html?_r=1& Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davekempmeister Posted August 4, 2014 Report Share Posted August 4, 2014 (edited) http://www.bomberonline.com/VBulletin/showthread.php?25593-R-I-P-Karine&p=423769#post423769 googled this. Edited August 4, 2014 by davekempmeister Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snowmatic Posted August 8, 2014 Report Share Posted August 8, 2014 (edited) NY Times needs a login! It looks America stands sometime aside from hardbooters world. Europeans daily printet newspaper had some headlines and/or articles about the chute in crevasse of La Grande Dame of snowboarding. Examples from France, Italy, Spain, Germany, Switzerland, Austria: http://www.lequipe.fr/Snowboard/Actualites/Deces-de-karine-ruby/36485 http://www.ledauphine.com/haute-savoie/2011/02/23/accident-de-karine-ruby-deux-ans-apres http://www.lefigaro.fr/sport/2009/05/29/02001-20090529ARTFIG00460-snowboard-chute-mortelle-de-la-championne-karine-ruby-.php http://www.lastampa.it/2009/05/29/sport/sport-invernali/cade-nel-crepaccio-muore-la-stellafrancese-di-snowboard-karine-ruby-tWOvmjpwmX6k7mQJpHpoSK/pagina.html http://www.gazzetta.it/Sport_Vari/Sport_Invernali/Snowboard/29-05-2009/muore-monte-bianco--50466403584.shtml http://www.20minutos.es/deportes/noticia/karine-ruby-snowboard-471379/0/ http://www.spiegel.de/panorama/alpen-olympiasiegerin-stirbt-bei-kletter-unfall-a-627757.html http://www.blick.ch/sport/wintersport/snowboard/olympiasiegerin-faellt-in-gletscherspalte-tot-id22858.html http://derstandard.at/1242317068123/Snowboard-Olympiasiegerin-Ruby-starb-bei-Bergunfall Well, late May 2009 American hardbooters had been strongly absorbed for all the preparings of the 2010 Vancouver rain Olympics, which was hold some months later. Even transporting 300 truckloads of snow from 100 miles away to a melting mountain needs some well done planings before. So America couldn't take focus to things which happens on exciting powder snow conditions of Mont Blanc during summer time. Even Simon Schoch was training that summer to be ready for 2010 Vancouver rain Olympics. On the second run on quarter finals, as I saw it on TV, he left the start-gate with moving his arms like swimming and he had swim-goggles on, instead of snowboard goggles, which was also remarked by others. Edit: some pictures from Karine Ruby [highlight]Nagano Olympics 1998 Gold[/highlight] [highlight]SLC Olympics 2002 Silver[/highlight] [highlight]how to carve on a smooth and proper way a giant-slalom raceboard on desired steep terrain[/highlight] Edited August 13, 2014 by snowmatic Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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