Jorge E. Rodriguez
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Jorge Eduardo "Yoyi" Rodríguez (March 3, 1961 in Zurich - January 14, 1999 near Splügen, Switzerland) is a former Swiss Olympic cross-country skier.
Rodríguez represented the Swiss in the 1980 Winter Olympics, 1984 Winter Olympics, and 1992 Winter Olympics. In the 1980 Olympiad Rodriguez took home the bronze, in preparing for the 1988 games, Rodriguez was involved in a near-fatal hang-gliding accident, and in 1992 came back and triumphantly took the Gold, and retired thereafter.
In 1999 Rodriguez was killed in a fatal tobagganing accident near his home in the Alps, there was a nation-wide state of mourning for 3 days in the aftermath of the accident, and the mountain where he was tragically was killed was renamed Mt. Yoyi in 2002.
