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Olympic snowboarder Alex 'Chumpy' Pullin dies after drowning while out spearfishing
FREE newsletter is packed with the best (and weirdest) stories from around the worldWorld champion snowboarder Alex Pullin has died while spearfishing in his native Australia, it has been confirmed.The 32-year-old was found unresponsive off a beach on Queensland’s Gold Coast on Wednesday, where paramedics failed in their attempts to revive him.“Chumpy”, who became world champion on two occasions in his glittering snowboarding career, was Australia’s flag bearer at the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi.“The man was spearfishing off Palm Beach,” a Queensland Ambulance spokesman said.