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On June 10, 1999, the Olympic pipeline operated by Olympic Pipeline Company, carrying gasoline at the time, exploded in Whatcom Falls Park in Bellingham, Washington. The disaster began at 3:25 PM PDT (22:25 UTC) when an underground gasoline pipeline crossing Whatcom and Hanna Creeks ruptured. The incident was caused by a series of errors and ...
Steve Roland " Pre " Prefontaine [1] (January 25, 1951 – May 30, 1975) was an US-American long-distance runner who from 1973 to 1975 set American records at every distance from 2,000 to 10,000 meters. [2] [3] He competed in the 1972 Summer Olympics, [4] and was preparing for the 1976 Olympics with the Oregon Track Club at the time of his ...
Trevor Jacob. Released on June 12, 2024. [4] Trevor Daniel Jacob [1] (born August 6, 1993) [2] is an American Olympic athlete, snowboard cross competitor, extreme sports athlete, YouTuber, and light aircraft pilot. He represented the United States in snowboarding in the 2014 Winter Olympics.
Belgian cyclist Wout van Aert, the reigning Olympic road race silver medalist and a podium favorite for the Paris Games, crashed during the Dwars door Vlaanderen race Wednesday and fractured his ...
U.S. Olympic ski jumper Patrick Gasienica died Monday in a motorcycle accident in Bull Valley, Illinois. He was 24 years old. The U.S. Ski & Snowboard team confirmed his death Tuesday.
In 2016, Cavendish accepted responsibility and apologised for the crash of South Korean cyclist Park Sang-hoon at the men's omnium event at the Olympics when an incident between them led to Park being thrown from his bike. After the crash, Park appeared unconscious and did not move while paramedics administered first aid; he was eventually ...
A career full of crashes. Alpine skiing’s unbreakable woman grew up in northern Italy, and at age 9, on a basic questionnaire, she scribbled her dream: “To win the Olympic downhill.”
Bogataj returned to ski jumping in 1971 but never duplicated the success he had before the crash and retired from the sport competitively, save for occasional senior competitions thereafter. During his career, his best career finish was 57th in the individual normal hill competition in Bischofshofen in 1969 during that year's Four Hills ...