French Olympic snowboarder Julie Pomagalski dies in avalanche in Swiss Alps

Former Olympian Julie Pomagalski, a snowboarder from France, died Tuesday in an avalanche in the Swiss Alps.

Pomagalski, 40, won gold in snowboard cross in the 1999 world championships and competed in the parallel giant slalom in the 2002 Salt Lake City Olympics and the 2006 Turin Games. Her death was announced Wednesday by the French ski federation, which said that Bruno Cutelli, a guide, also died.