Police say veteran X Games biker Dave Mirra has died in North Carolina. He was 41.
Greenville police said Thursday night that Mirra’s body was found earlier in the day with an apparently self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Authorities say they responded to an apparent suicide and discovered his body in a truck. They say he had been visiting friends in the area.
Mayor Allen Thomas called Mirra “a great friend and wonderful human being.”
Mirra was an accomplished BMX rider and one of the most decorated athletes in X Games history, medaling every year from 1995 to 2008 and winning 14 gold medals. His one-time record of 24 career medals was broken in 2013 by Bob Burnquist.
He also hosted MTV’s “Real World/Road Rules Challenge” and two video games carried his name.
The Associated Press contributed to this article.
You mean you can get a gold medal for riding a bike? That’s stupid as hell.
Only if you are completely reckless and do everything your parents told you to never do.
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The above comments are quite disrespectful. He died, of suicide. And that is very tragic…and only 41 years old. We don’t know what problems he had in his life. Condolences to his family and grief for him and what drove him to do this.
I don’t know who this man was but he was a good rider. Gold Medals are awarded in all kinds of sports, even things someone else might not consider a sport. So the comments related to that and not his death are totally uncalled for.
Another alleged suicide.
I wonder if he were an active supporter of natural healing and related with either of the physicians who were “suicided” in the last six months of 2015?
Did he recently decline an offer to be sponsored by a hollywood mogul ?