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“Sport has the power to change the world. It has the power to inspire. Sport can create hope where once there was only despair” - Nelson Mandela

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:NED  Ben Pon who finished 31st (out of 63) in the 1972 Olympic skeet shooting passed away aged 82.

 

He's better known for flipping the privateer Porsche 787 two laps into the 1962 Dutch GP which proved to be his only F1 start.

 

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:AUT  Wolfgang Perner (biathlon) has died aged 52 after long illness (probably cancer).

 

He was involved in the doping scandal at 2006 WOG together with W.Rottmann.

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  • 3 weeks later...

I know this lady wasn’t an Olympian, but I feel like Paralympians count for this thread too. She will be missed:

 

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“Sport has the power to change the world. It has the power to inspire. Sport can create hope where once there was only despair” - Nelson Mandela

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Good news in a sad way. She had suffered enough and now can hopefully finally find the peace she wanted so badly. Sleeping one hour a night again and again simply because the pain is so excruciating is no way to live. 

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Brazilian judoka Mario Sabino has been shot and killed aged 47, apparently after a fight with a military colleague who then killed himself as well (?).

https://oglobo.globo.com/esportes/ex-judoca-olimpico-morto-apos-desentendimento-com-militar-1-24044319

 

Competed at the 2000 (quarterfinals) and 2004 Olympics and won world bronze in 2003.

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

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Posted this in the water polo section and adding it here.  The water polo world has lost a great one. 4x Olympian, gold medalist and World Champion for Hungary, 6’11” legend Istvan Szivos (white cap with hands out of water).  I had the honor of playing against him multiple times (he’s guarding me in this pic) and to put it mildly, it was always a brutally challenging experience. He was always a true gentleman and sportsman. Rest In Peace

 

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