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Ivar Formo, Olympic champion in the 50 km cross country at the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck drowned on 26 December. He was skating on the Store Sandungen lake in Nordmarka (near Oslo) when the ice broke.

Formo (55) first competed in the Olympics in Sapporo, when he won a bronze medal in the 15 km, and a silver with the Norwegian relay team. In Innsbruck he repeated his silver in the 4 x 10 km event, and took a bronze in the 1974 Orienteering World Championships.

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