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Former NBA player Walter Davis. Member of the 1976 US men’s Olympic basketball team. Spent the majority of his NBA career with the Phoenix Suns. 69 years old.

 

https://www.si.com/nba/2023/11/02/walter-davis-north-carolina-phoenix-suns-nba-all-star-dies

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43 minutes ago, Monzanator said:

:URS Oleg Protopopov (2x Olympic Champion in pairs) died at the age of 91.

Wow, back in the olden days on the BBC his black-and-white routines with Belousova in the 60s always used to be shown as the epitome of classical elegance in ice skating. 

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What was supposed to be a great afternoon for Albanian football fans, with leader FK Egnatia playing champion and current number two FK Partizani, ended up a tragedy: Egnatia player Raphael Dwamena from Ghana collapsed, players of both teams and medical help were there within seconds, but nothing could be done and he died on the way to the hospital, 28 years old. Former RB Salzburg and Levante player and 7-time international.

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I apologise if this was reported at the time but 2023 saw the death of Félix Sienra of :URU who passed away in January two weeks after becoming the longest lived Olympian at the age 107 years and 9 days. He competed in sailing at the 1948 OG.

 

As an aside he also attended - and was almost certainly the last survivor of ‐ the first football World Cup final in 1930 when Uruguay lifted the inaugural trophy after defeating Argentina 4–2 in Montevideo.

 

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/olympian-felix-sienra-uruguay-dies-1948-summer-olympics-b1057223.html

 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Félix_Sienra

 

https://acsweb.ucsd.edu/~ptchir/centenarians.html

 

 

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