The Illinois native competed in the Beijing Olympics for the U.S. team Anna Lazarus Caplan is a writer-reporter for PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2022. Her work previously appeared in ...

Olympic ski jumper Patrick Gasienica died Monday in a motorcycle accident in Illinois, officials said. Gasienica, 24, competed for the United States in the 2022 Olympics in Beijing. Preliminary ...

STURGIS, SOUTH DAKOTA — Sturgis Motocross daredevil Colby Raha made history on Aug. 2 when he broke the Harley-Davidson distance jump world record, landing a 205-foot jump as thousands of fans cheered ...

Olympic ski jumper Patrick Gasienica has died at the age of 24. Police said they attended the scene of a two-vehicle accident involving a motorcycle in Illinois Monday evening, and Gasienica, who was ...

(CNN) — Olympic ski jumper Patrick Gasienica died at the age of 24 on Monday, USA Nordic has announced. A GoFundMe page shared by USA Nordic, who confirmed his death Wednesday, said he died in a ...

BULL VALLEY, Ill. (AP) — Olympic ski jumper Patrick Gasienica, who competed for the United States last year in the Beijing Games, has died. He was 24. Gasienica died after being involved in a ...