Two Olympic athletes who won medals for France were among ten people killed Monday when two helicopters crashed in a remote area of northwest Argentina.
Eight of the victims were French citizens, including swimmer Camille Muffat and boxer Alexis Vastine. The athletes were part of a crew filming the reality show "Dropped," a survivalist program that is broadcast throughout Europe.
Muffat, 25, won three medals at the 2012 Olympic Games in London, including gold in the 400-meter freestyle. Vastine, 28, won a bronze medal in the light welterweight division at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing.
Florence Arthaud, 57, a champion sailor, also was among the dead in the crash. In 1990, she won the famed Route du Rhum race — a trans-Atlantic single-handed yacht race between Brittany and the Caribbean islands of Guadeloupe — on her boat Pierre 1er….
