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A member of the Dartmouth ski team collapsed and died over the weekend from unknown causes while competing in a cross-country ski race in Vermont. Torin Tucker, 20, was on course in northeast Vermont on Saturday morning when he fell to the ground. He died moments later and did not respond to resuscitation efforts, said Dartmouth spokesman Justin Anderson.
Officials did not immediately release a cause of death.
“We don’t yet know what happened, in part because it was a total surprise,” he said. “There’s no reason this should have happened to a phenomenal athlete, a young man who was in great shape.”
Trucker was competing in a competition called the Craftsbury Marathon. The event draws as many as 1,000 skiers of all ages each year and is billed as the largest cross-country race in the eastern United States.