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Athletes Deaths Thread


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British cycling great Barry Hoban, winner of 8 Tour de France stages, all at a time when road racing had a very very low profile in Britain.  

 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/cycling/articles/c9dj98203nqo

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:FRA Margot Simond, 18, the current national junior champion in slalom, died in a training accident ahead of a Red Bull event.

 

https://www.lequipe.fr/Ski/Actualites/La-championne-de-france-junior-margot-simond-meurt-a-18-ans-lors-d-un-entrainement-a-val-d-isere/1556748

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1 hour ago, NearPup said:

:FRA Margot Simond, 18, the current national junior champion in slalom, died in a training accident ahead of a Red Bull event.

 

https://www.lequipe.fr/Ski/Actualites/La-championne-de-france-junior-margot-simond-meurt-a-18-ans-lors-d-un-entrainement-a-val-d-isere/1556748

Damn...

 

That's Clement Noel's Red Bull event of Sunday I think? 

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1 hour ago, heywoodu said:

Damn...

 

That's Clement Noel's Red Bull event of Sunday I think? 

Yes.

 

The event has been cancelled due to the accident.

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Sir Andrew Ogilvy-Wedderburn, the 7th Baronet of Balindean

died early this month aged 72.

He was a bobsleigh Olympian for Great Britain in 1976 and 1980.

Proves not even aristocrats can live forever...

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at the age of 84, we mourn the loss of :BRA Jair Da Costa, more known as simply Jair (aka "the black arrow"), football star in the Sixties, mainly with FC Internazionale Milano, where he played 10 years, winning 4 national titles, 2 Champions Cups and 2 Intercontinental Cups

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Horrible accident at the last British Supersport race of the weekend yesterday at Oulton Park. Roughly ten riders sustained certain injuries, Shane Richardson (29) and young Owen Jenner (21) didn't survive..

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Fijian rugby player Josaia Raisque, silver medalist in Paris 2024, was killed when his car was hit by a train at a level crossing in France today

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