The 25-year-old, who represented the island at several World Winter Games, passed away after taking ill.
Gareth Cowin, 25, died in PyeongChang whilst representing the island at the Special Olympics World Winter Games.
The Special Olympics World Winter Games in South Korea have been renamed in honour of Manx Olympian Gareth Cowin.
She has earned a gold medal at the 2006 Winter Games in the Giant Slalon, 2 silver medals in the 2012 Winter Games, 7 World Cup Championships and 4 podium finishes in the World Championships of Downhill Skiing.
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In 1999, he left the business world to become the president and chief executive of the 2002 Olympic Winter Games in Salt Lake City, after fiscal and ethical problems emerged under the previous management.
This is an athlete who has won gold in the last three major international competitions she has taken part in - last winter's World Indoors, the 2002 European Championships and the Commonwealth Games the same year.
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Mike Lee is the chairman of Verocom, an organization which has successfully overseen campaigns to bring the Games to Rio in 2016, the Winter Olympics to Pyongchang in 2018 and the FIFA World Cup to Qatar in 2022.
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