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85-year-old skier dies at Beaver Creek Resort

An 85-year-old woman has died after being found unconscious on a ski run at a Colorado ski resort.

The Eagle County coroner says Rita Lewis died on Wednesday after being rushed to a hospital in Vail from Beaver Creek Resort where she had been skiing.

The Vail Daily reports that a family member says that Lewis was found on the slope unconscious by her husband and that doctors determined she had broken her neck.

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