Les Crosets (Switzerland): Former Swiss World Cup skier Corinne Rey-Bellet has been shot dead at her family home, police said on Monday.
Rey-Bellet, who retired from the World Cup circuit in 2003, was killed along with her brother Alain in the small ski resort of Les Crosets on Sunday night.
Swiss police have issued an arrest warrant for her husband.
Rey-Bellet won five World Cup races during her career including a rare feat of two wins on the same day in January 1999.
The 33-year-old former speed specialist also won a silver medal in downhill at the 2003 world championships in St Moritz and took part in four Winter Olympics.
Following the birth of her son in November 2003, Rey-Bellet was retraining to become a physiotherapist.
"We just heard the news this morning and we were all so shocked," said Swiss Ski director Hansruedi Laich. "To lose such a great skier in this way is tragic.
"It's just horrific," agreed Rey-Bellet's former team colleague Sylviane Berthod. "At first I couldn't believe it. I just cannot imagine what could have happened."
Rey-Bellet's mother was taken to hospital in a serious condition after being injured in the attack.
At a news conference held in the village on Monday, investigating magistrate Philippe Medico said witnesses had reported seeing Rey-Bellet's husband Gerold Stadler leaving the building with a gun in his hand.
"He fled in a car, carrying a pistol," said Medico, adding that the car had since been found in the neighbouring canton of Vaud.
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