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  On 6/17/2024 at 3:58 PM, Faramir said:

Always happens with exotic countries. At least they didn't write that he was a medal favorite.

 

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Italy is the most exotic country of them all :d:hyper:

But seriously, in one of the articles, it was stated that he got a quota from Sail Sydney, which is obviously not true. New Zealand got that, and shockingly, accepted it!

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Did he not have any chance to compete in the Olympics at all anymore?

 

And obviously this doesn't make the whole story any less sad, it's still a teenager who drowned doing some fun diving...

 

Edit: it's not like the Olympics thing just appeared out of nowhere, over a month ago they were writing about him going to the Olympics already.

https://matangitonga.to/2024/05/15/tongas-jj-rice-preps-summer-olympics-paris-2024

Edited by heywoodu

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  • 2 weeks later...

:RSA Jacques Freitag (2003 HJ world champion) found dead (at the age of 42, likely victim of a murder)

 

https://athleticsweekly.com/athletics-news/jacques-freitag-2003-world-high-jump-champion-found-dead-in-south-africa-1039989153/

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:FRA Eric Poujade, 51 yo (silver medalist in Sidney) 

 

Sounds like suicide...

 

https://www.lequipe.fr/Gymnastique/Article/Vice-champion-olympique-des-arcons-en-2000-eric-poujade-est-mort/1479589

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Very sadly, Rio 2016 Olympian :SUI Marcela Krinke-Susmelj has passed away of an early onset alzheimer's.

 

https://eurodressage.com/2024/07/18/swiss-olympian-marcela-krinke-susmelj-passed-away

#banbestmen

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:POL Justyna Burska, former open water swimmer, national champion, who competed in World 2019 in 5km and 10km race has died in motorcycle accident, according reports a car hit her motorcycle and she died immediatly after it, she was aged just 29 yo :( :cry:

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