{"id":390897,"date":"2026-01-04T10:52:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T10:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/390897\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T10:52:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T10:52:08","slug":"emanuele-galeppini-italian-golfer-dead-at-17-after-fire-at-swiss-ski-resor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/390897\/","title":{"rendered":"Emanuele Galeppini, Italian Golfer Dead at 17 After Fire at Swiss Ski Resor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> NASCAR Driver Greg Biffle and Wife Cristina&#8217;s Families Speak Out on Deadly Plane Crash<\/p>\n<p>The Italian sports world is mourning the loss of one of their own.<\/p>\n<p>One day after the devastating fire at the Le Constellation bar in the Crans-Montana ski resort in Switzerland, Italian golf officials confirmed golfer\u00a0Emanuele Galeppini was among the 40 people who were killed in the tragedy.\u00a0He was 17.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Italian Golf Federation mourns the passing of Emanuele Galeppini, a young athlete who embodied passion and authentic values,\u201d a statement shared by the Italian Golf Federation on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DS_C4PvjaHK\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a>\u00a0Jan. 1 read. \u201cIn this time of great sorrow, our thoughts are with his family and all those who loved him.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The statement continued, \u201cEmanuele, you will forever remain in our hearts.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The fire inside the Le Constellation bar\u2014a popular hotspot for young adults, teens and tourists\u2014began, according to Swiss authorities as reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/world\/europe\/swiss-ski-resort-fire-crans-montana-constellation-bar-new-year-rcna251883\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NBC News<\/a>\u00a0around 1:30 a.m. on Jan. 1, leaving 40 people dead and around 115 others injured.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NASCAR Driver Greg Biffle and Wife Cristina&#8217;s Families Speak Out on Deadly Plane Crash The Italian sports world&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":390898,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":["post-390897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/390898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}