Athletes Deaths Thread

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Australia's 1960 Olympic Champion John Konrads dies at 78

 

Australia's 1960 Olympic Champ John Konrads Dies At 78

[Giovanni Gianni Cattaneo 142]

With tears in mu eyes.

Filippo Mondelli, rowing,  dies at 26. 

Former world championship 2018 4x.

 

[Gianlu33 4,750]

  On 4/29/2021 at 3:57 PM, Giovanni Gianni Cattaneo said:

With tears in mu eyes.

Filippo Mondelli, rowing,  dies at 26. 

Former world championship 2018 4x.

 

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It's a sad day for the Italian sport. Totally unexpected

[phelps 7,862]

  On 4/29/2021 at 4:49 PM, Gianlu33 said:

It's a sad day for the Italian sport. Totally unexpected

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well, not so quickly, maybe...

 

but his bone cancer was well known since the beginning, in the early months of 2020...

 

and with that type of cancer, the prognosis very rarely is good, unfortunately...

 

however, I'm still devastated by the news...

[Gianlu33 4,750]

  On 4/29/2021 at 7:02 PM, phelps said:

well, not so quickly, maybe...

 

but his bone cancer was well known since the beginning, in the early months of 2020...

 

and with that type of cancer, the prognosis very rarely is good, unfortunately...

 

however, I'm still devastated by the news...

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The last week he was elected as CONI delegate, he seems in good election. Honestly I thank that all was going in the right direction...

[intoronto 5,903]

F*ck cancer, second top athlete to die early from bone cancer.

 

https://sg.news.yahoo.com/south-korean-speed-skating-champion-noh-dies-cancer-051342503.html

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Munich Olympics top basketball scorer Masatomo Taniguchi dies at 75

 

Munich Olympics top basketball scorer Masatomo Taniguchi dies at 75 | The Japan Times

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Tamara Press. Soviet Union. Three-time Olympic champion 1960-64. Age 83.

 

Tamara Press, three-time Olympic champion subject to gender hearsay, dies age 83

 

 

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Ravindra Pal Singh and Maharaj Krishan Kaushik, members of the last Indian hockey team to win gold at the 1980 Olympic Games, died on the same day from COVID-19.

 

 

Two Indian Olympic hockey gold medallists die from COVID-19 on same day

 

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Tenpin bowler Catherine Che Kuk-hung, the first athlete to win a gold medal for Hong Kong at the Asian Games, has died aged 69.

 

Tenpin bowler who won Hong Kong’s first Asian Games gold in 1986 dies