The shock news: The world champion has died in a terrible accident – turned 31 years old: “Absolute worst”

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The sports world has lost yet another profile.
Former world champion Kyle Smaine has died.
He was only 31 years old and died in a tragic accident, reports Reuters.

The biggest moment of his career came in 2015 when he won WC gold in halfpipe during the championship in Kreischberg, Austria. But now the terrible thing has happened to the freestyle skater Kyle Smaine.

Tragic accident

The American has died in a tragic accident in Japan on Sunday. Smaine was one of two people who died in an avalanche accident on the Japanese island of Honshu, where the former world champion got caught in a rope race along with other skiers, the Reuters news agency reports.

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Kyle Smaine from the US celebrates his gold medal at the men’s freestyle ski half pipe event at the Freestyle Ski and Snowboard World Championships in Kreischberg, Austria, Jan. 22, 2015. Smaine died after getting buried in an avalanche in the mountains of central Japan over the weekend. The US Freeski team posted on social media about the 31-year-old American’s death. (AP Photo/Darko Bandic, file) NYPS218

Kyle Smaine turned 31 years old and is now greatly mourned. The professional skier Adam U was one of the survivors during the avalanche and miraculously survived.
“Yesterday was my absolute worst nightmare. It would be the last day of the trip, I was tired and went down to our base. But Kyle and Adam chose to get up and go again,” writes the photographer Gran Gunderson on Instagram.
“Adam was buried one and a half meters under the snow for 25 minutes and was unharmed. It’s a miracle. Kyle was thrown 50 meters by the air pressure and buried dead,” he writes.

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Wife’s grief

The US Freestyle National Team also confirmed the death on social media and mourned their friend and colleague.
“Today we lost a fantastic person, friend, skier and teammate in the mountains. Smaine loved exploring the mountains, he was a real competitor but an even better person and friend,” the national team writes on Instagram.

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Oslo 20160228. X Games Oslo 2016: Kyle Smaine from the USA warms up before the men’s freeski superpipe final in Wyller on Sunday evening. Photo: Vegard Wivestad Grøtt / NTB

Smaine’s wife Jenna mourns her late husband and talks openly about her grief on social media.
“My dear husband and my whole world. I am so grateful to have married you and to have you in my life. You loved skiing more than anyone I’ve ever met. I met you on a trip to New Zealand in 2010 and who would have thought we would be married 13 years later? These are the best years of my life,” she writes in an emotional post on Instagram.

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