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		</div><p>World champion halfpipe skier Kyle Smaine has died after getting buried in an avalanche in the mountains of central Japan.</p>
<p>The US Freeski team posted on social media about the 31-year-old American’s death, which occurred at the weekend.</p>
<p>Smaine, who lived in Lake Tahoe, California, recently posted that he was taking the trip to ski in the backcountry of the Nagano prefecture to enjoy the “unbelievable snow quality”.</p>
<p>His wife, Jenna Dramise, also posted on Instagram, saying “tonight I hope to ride some pow or bikes with you in my dreams”.</p>
<p>There had been heavy snowfall in the area at the time of Smaine’s trip, and authorities had issued avalanche warnings.</p>
<p>Photographer Grant Gunderson, who was on the trip, detailed the avalanche on social media and said Smaine “was thrown 50 metres by the air blast and buried and killed”.</p>
<p>Two other skiers were with Smaine, one of whom died and another who was buried in nearly five feet of snow but emerged unscathed.</p>
<p>Mr Gunderson did not give the full names of the other skiers.</p>
<p>Smaine won the world championship in ski halfpipe in 2015, the year after that discipline was added to the Olympics.</p>
<p>His last major contest was a World Cup in Mammoth Mountain, California, that he won in January 2018.</p>
<p>Tributes to Smaine poured in on his Instagram page.</p>
<p>On its own Instagram posting, the US Freeski team said: “Kyle Smaine was a world champion freeskier, loved exploring the mountains, was a fierce competitor but an even better person and friend.”</p>
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