Sophie Hediger, a former Olympian ... She achieved her first two World Cup podium placements in the 2023-24 season in snowboard cross. Snowboard cross is a competition between four to six people ...

“Our thoughts are with Sophie’s family, to whom we express our deepest condolences.” Hediger was poised as an up-and-coming ...

Sophie Hediger, a member of Switzerland’s snowboard cross team at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics, has died following an avalanche at a mountain resort, the country’s skiing federation said ...