Canada's Nick Zoricic has died competing in a ski cross World Cup event in Grindelwald on Saturday, organisers announced. The 29-year-old crashed into safety netting after the final jump just before the finish on the Grindelwald slope. Lying motionless he was attended to by doctors before being airlifted by Air Glacier to a hospital in Interlaken in the canton of Berne.
"Despite reanimation Zoricic died as a result of severe neurotrauma," organisers Swiss-Ski reported in a statement. In a joint statement the International Ski Federation and the Swiss Ski Federation expressed "their sincere condolences to the family, to friends and to Team Canada".