{"id":6248,"date":"2025-07-19T22:33:25","date_gmt":"2025-07-19T22:33:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=6248"},"modified":"2025-07-19T22:33:25","modified_gmt":"2025-07-19T22:33:25","slug":"olympic-skier-dies-after-lightning-strike-on-holiday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=6248","title":{"rendered":"Olympic skier dies after lightning strike on holiday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"87\"><strong data-start=\"0\" data-end=\"87\">Norwegian Olympic bronze medallist Audun Gr\u00f8nvold dies at 49 after lightning strike<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"89\" data-end=\"261\">Audun Gr\u00f8nvold, Norway\u2019s Olympic ski cross bronze medallist from the 2010 Vancouver Games, has died at 49 after being struck by lightning while vacationing with his family.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"263\" data-end=\"488\">A former Alpine skier turned freestyle champion, Gr\u00f8nvold won national downhill titles in 2003 and 2004 before switching to ski cross. After retiring post-Olympics, he stayed active in the sport as a coach and TV commentator.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"490\" data-end=\"701\">He was struck by lightning during a cabin trip with his wife and three children and later died in hospital on July 15. The Norwegian Ski Federation confirmed his passing, calling him a major figure in the sport.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"703\" data-end=\"922\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">His wife, Kristin Tandberg Haugsj\u00e5, paid tribute on Facebook, writing, \u201cAudun, my great love&#8230; you left us too soon.\u201d Olympic legend Kjetil Andr\u00e9 Aamodt also expressed his sorrow, calling the death \u201csudden and brutal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"703\" data-end=\"922\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-173504\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn-main.newsner.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2025\/07\/18091250\/Screenshot-2025-07-18-at-10.12.21.png\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1822px) 100vw, 1822px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn-main.newsner.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2025\/07\/18091250\/Screenshot-2025-07-18-at-10.12.21.png 1822w, https:\/\/cdn-main.newsner.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2025\/07\/18091250\/Screenshot-2025-07-18-at-10.12.21-768x536.png 768w, https:\/\/cdn-main.newsner.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2025\/07\/18091250\/Screenshot-2025-07-18-at-10.12.21-1536x1072.png 1536w\" alt=\"\" width=\"1822\" height=\"1272\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Norwegian Olympic bronze medallist Audun Gr\u00f8nvold dies at 49 after lightning strike Audun Gr\u00f8nvold, Norway\u2019s Olympic ski cross bronze medallist from the 2010 Vancouver Games, has died at 49 after being struck by lightning while vacationing with his family. A former Alpine skier turned freestyle champion, Gr\u00f8nvold won national downhill titles in 2003 and 2004&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=6248\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Olympic skier dies after lightning strike on holiday&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6249,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6248"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6248\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6250,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6248\/revisions\/6250"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}