The 49 -year -old former athlete was in his hut with his partner, who gave news of the tragedy
A mourning has hit the ski world. At 49 he died Audun Greenvold, Olympic bronze in the Skicross in Vancouver 2010, hit by lightning while he was in his hut in Norway. To announce the death of the Scandinavian skier – until 2009 he was a member of the Alpine Ski team, third in the World Cup in the descent of Sierra Nevada in 1999 – was the Kristin Tandberg Haugsja in a moving post on social media: “Audun, my great love and my best friend for twenty years … Today you left us. What started with a wonderful summer holiday last Saturday with a lightning While we were in our hut.
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Greenvold Nello Skicross won three cup races and conquered the world champion in Ruka in 2005. The Norwegian champion Kjetil André Aamodt was part of the Norwegian alpine skiing team together with Greenvold and in the last 15 years they played together with ice hockey per hobby.