Thomas Ulsrud

In 2010, he advanced to the final of the Olympic Games in Vancouver, earning a silver medal after losing to Canada's Kevin Martin. At that event, his team of ...

He holds the record for the most wins by a skip at the world championship. "We are so incredibly saddened to hear of Thomas Ulsrud's passing," Curling Canada tweeted. “Thomas has been fighting cancer since December 2020,” the statement read, “but the last week it took a turn for the worse and in the end he was gone very quickly.

Thomas Ulsrud, the world champion and Olympic silver medalist skip, passed away on the night of May 24 after an 18-month battle against cancer.

The Facebook page for their pants still has nearly 450,000 followers. The team and their pants remained ubiquitous for the next 20 years. “We the team are devastated for our loss.

Ulsrud was a three time Olympian winning silver in Vancouver in 2010. © WCF / Richard Gray. Ulsrud competed at 12 world men's championships — from 1998 until ...

“We owe a huge debt of gratitude to Thomas who will always have a place in our hearts and in curling’s history. They were huge ambassadors for the sport both on and off the ice and I have always said that Vancouver was the turning point for our sport. He would also win six silver and three bronze medals at the European Championships throughout his career.

Curling legend Thomas Olsrud passed away after a long battle with cancer. The 2010 world champion and silver medalist turned 50. Posted:.

Then he had to start a new type of chemotherapy at Radiumhospitalet. He was very optimistic about the outcome of this treatment. He was 46 years old The largest participant in Norway At the Winter Games in South Korea. With Thomas Olsrud as president, the team won a number of medals at international tournaments, both before and after all the clothing changes. During the 2014 Olympics, The New York Times compared Norway’s national team customs at the time as a quirky version of the clothing style in “Ocean’s Eleven” — and Olsrud & Co. has become The main attraction of the American television giant NBC. The disease was discovered in the course of a routine examination by an Olympic physician, says Elaine Grodal. Then the various “Team Ulsrud” costumes became a controversial – and widely discussed – brand.

Thomas Ulsrud, the skip of Norway's Olympic silver-medal curling team whose flashy pants were a sensation, died at age 50 after an 18-month cancer battle.

They found fellow Norwegian skiers and snowboarders across the hall and asked the women for their opinion. The night before their first game, the Norwegians sat together in a room in the Olympic Village, contemplating whether wearing the pants was a good idea. In 2010, Team Ulsrud became celebrities at the Vancouver Olympics on their way to winning silver medals.

Norwegian curler Thomas Ulsrud, a three-time Olympian who won silver at the 2010 Vancouver Games, has died aft...