Olympic ski jumper Patrick Gasienica, who competed for the U.S. last year in the Beijing Games, has died at age 24 after being involved in a motorcycle accident.
Gasienica finished 49th and 53rd in individual events at the Beijing Olympics, and was 10th in a team competition with Casey Larson, Kevin Bickner and Decker Dean.
“We don’t really have a lot of jumpers, but it’s getting better,” Gasienica said last year in China. “Especially since the pandemic,. Hopefully in a couple of years — five, 10, maybe — we’ll have a really, really great team.” Gasienica, who was born in Oak Park, developed as a young ski jumper at the Norge Ski Club about 40 miles northwest of Chicago.
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