Ross Milne

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Ross Milne

Australian alpine ski racer

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Ross Milne died in separate accidents while practicing during the 1964 Innsbruck Games. Swiss speed skier Nicholas Bochatay died during the 1992 Winter Olympics after crashing into a parked tractor vehicle, used to tend to the snow trails, during a practice run. In 2010 Georgian…
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Ross Milne died in separate accidents while practicing during the 1964 Innsbruck Games. Swiss speed skier Nicholas Bochatay died during the 1992 Winter Olympics after crashing into a parked tractor vehicle, used to tend to the snow trails, during a practice run. In 2010 Georgian…
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Olympic Games
Innsbruck, Austria, 1964
…downhill as an Australian skier, Ross Milne, was killed during a practice run. The event was won by Egon Zimmermann (Austria), who continued the Olympic tradition of Lech, a hamlet with less than 200 residents, which had produced two other Alpine gold medalists—Othmar Schneider (1952, slalom) and Trude Beiser-Jochum (1952,…
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…downhill as an Australian skier, Ross Milne, was killed during a practice run. The event was won by Egon Zimmermann (Austria), who continued the Olympic tradition of Lech, a hamlet with less than 200 residents, which had produced two other Alpine gold medalists—Othmar Schneider (1952, slalom) and Trude Beiser-Jochum (1952,…
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