Athletes Deaths Thread

[Grassmarket 3,450]

2 hours ago, Olympian1010 said:

My grandfather started coaching high school athletics in Oregon in the 1960s. We were chatting about the pre-flop days earlier this year. He used to teach the Western Roll, and even once criticized a kid for trying something similar to the flop in the late 1960s. 

Like I said, if the school did not have foam rubber landing mats, he was right, it was too dangerous for school.  At my school in the 70s we were still jumping into the long jump pit.

 

Just remembered: the straddle, that was the other one.  Lead leg over first, then the rest of the body.

Edited March 13, 2023 by Grassmarket

[Olympian1010 7,990]

3 minutes ago, Grassmarket said:

Like I said, if the school did not have foam rubber landing mats, he was right, it was too dangerous for school.  At my school in the 70s we were still jumping into the long jump pit.

I believe there was a time when cinders or woodchips were fair game for pits as well, but I’d have to check.

[Grassmarket 3,450]

2 minutes ago, Olympian1010 said:

I believe there was a time when cinders or woodchips were fair game for pits as well, but I’d have to check.

No, LJ & TJ pits were always sand - otherwise the judges could not measure the mark.  The track itself was cinders or woodchips. Sprinters took a trowel out with them to dig their blocks in!  Mexico 68 was the first major games with a plastic track. 

Edited March 13, 2023 by Grassmarket

[heywoodu 15,174]

9 hours ago, Grassmarket said:

But by Munich 1972, everyone was using Fosbury’s jump.

Funnily enough except for the guy who actually won the gold  

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RIP Ángel Fournier 

 

 

[Dragon 1,849]

RIP Ron Cooper (GBR) who has died at age 95. One of the last boxers from the 1948 Olympics/

[heywoodu 15,174]

Freestyle skiing - 2021 world championships aerials bronze medalist (and mixed team world champion) Pavel Krotov of Russia has died, aged 30

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavel_Krotov

 

They specifically say the cause of death is not made public, which sadly does of course suggest something, generally speaking.

https://sport.rambler.ru/winter/50442862-umer-chempion-mira-2021-goda-fristaylist-pavel-krotov/

[Dragon 1,849]

On 3/26/2023 at 8:54 AM, heywoodu said:

Freestyle skiing - 2021 world championships aerials bronze medalist (and mixed team world champion) Pavel Krotov of Russia has died, aged 30

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavel_Krotov

 

They specifically say the cause of death is not made public, which sadly does of course suggest something, generally speaking.

https://sport.rambler.ru/winter/50442862-umer-chempion-mira-2021-goda-fristaylist-pavel-krotov/

Other Russian sources are saying he died of a brain hemorrhage while he was sleeping.

I do wonder how many times he landed on his head during training. 

[heywoodu 15,174]

1 hour ago, Dragon said:

Other Russian sources are saying he died of a brain hemorrhage while he was sleeping.

I do wonder how many times he landed on his head during training. 

Damn. Seriously one of the scariest things in life, together with bullshit like heart attacks, aneurysms and such....stuff that can take a seemingly totally healthy person out in an instant.

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