Nickyc707 305 Posted December 1, 2020 #431 Share Posted December 1, 2020 Deaths of Olympians in November. Don McDermott, 90 - Speed skating (1×S) Yalcin Granit, 88 - Basketball Matti Laakso, 79 - Wrestling Anne Covell, 70 - Athletics Taymi Chappe, 52 - Fencing Gennady Bukharin, 91 - Canoe sprint (2×B) Abdul Rashid, 73 - Hockey (1×G, 1×S, 1×B) Leonid Osipov, 77 - Water Polo (1×G, 1×S, 1×B) Barbara McAuley, 91 - Diving Sakari Paasonen, 85 - Shooting June Foulds, 86 - Athletics (1×S, 1×B) Willie Smith, 64 - Athletics (1×G) Heidar Shonjani, 74 - Swimming & Water polo Mohammed Bakar, 75 - Football Shkelqim Troplini, 54 - Wrestling John Kinsela, 70 - Wrestling Virginia Bonci, 71 - Athletics Fernando Atzori, 78 - Boxing (1×G) Amir Yavari, 88 - Boxing Gunther Pfaff, 81 - Canoe sprint (1×B) Giuliana Minuzzo, 88 - Alpine skiing (2×B) Jorge Llopart, 68 - Athletics (1×S) Boris Gurevich, 83 - Wrestling (1×G) Attila Horvath, 53 - Athletics Peter Florjancic, 101 - Ski jumping Osmo Ala-Honkola, 81 - Shooting Egidio Cosentino, 93 - Hockey Jagmohan Singh, 88 - Athletics Walt Davis, 89 - Athletics (1×G) Eitaro Okano, 90 - Athletics Anneliese Schuh-Proxauf, 98 - Alpine skiing Resit Karabacak, 66 - Wrestling Helen Morgan, 54 - Hockey (1×B) Hannu Lahtinen, 60 - Wrestling Jacques Deprez, 82 - Athletics Ernesto Canto, 61 - Athletics (1×G) Jens Sorensen, 79 - Cycling Billy Evans, 88 - Basketball (1×G) Doris de Agostini, 62 - Alpine skiing Anwar Aziz Chaudhry, 89 - Swimming Jozef Rysula, 81 - Cross-country skiing Mohammad Khadem, 85 - Wrestling Peter Lichtner-Hoyer, 93 - Equestrian & Modern pentathlon Yasil Yakusha, 62 - Rowing (1×S, 1×B) Vladimir Ivanov, 65 - Athletics Sir James Wolfensohn, 86 - Fencing Paul Nyman, 91 - Cycling Dimitar Largov, 84 - Football Kevin Burnham, 63 - Sailing (1×G, 1×B) Clifton Bertrand, 84 - Athletics Tan Eng Bock, 84 - Water polo hckošice and Olympian1010 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olympian1010 7,470 Posted December 2, 2020 #432 Share Posted December 2, 2020 I saw him at a UCLA Athletics meet a few years ago. He was a legendary athlete. mrv86 1 “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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nickyc707 305 Posted December 6, 2020 #433 Share Posted December 6, 2020 https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/golf/55204070 Not an Olympian but legendary golf commentator Peter Alliss has died. At 89 he was still the BBC's chief commentator and last worked at November's US Masters. He was also a successful player on the European tour with numerous Ryder Cup appearances. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PHI2019 188 Posted December 8, 2020 #434 Share Posted December 8, 2020 inuko Idogawa, one of the main members of Japan's gold medal-winning team in women's volleyball at the Tokyo 1964 Olympics, has died at the age of 81 following a brain haemorrhage. Tokyo 1964 Olympic champion Idogawa passes away at 81 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PHI2019 188 Posted December 8, 2020 #435 Share Posted December 8, 2020 Billy Evans, a member of the United States basketball team which won the gold medal at the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne, has died at the age of 88. Olympic basketball gold medallist Evans dies aged 88 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vojthas 947 Posted December 8, 2020 #436 Share Posted December 8, 2020 Professor Wojciech Zabłocki, one of the biggest Polish fencers and a great architect (he was the one to build the cycling track in Pruszków) has died recently. He was a widower after a famous Polish actress Alina Janowska. With his dead we got to know that his teammate from 1950s, Jerzy Twardokens also died a few years ago. Twardokens emigrated to USA in 1958 and started using the name George, became a doctor at the University of Nevada, his daughter is Eva Twardokens, Olympic alpine skier who survived the plane crash last year. The strangest thing about his death is that until he wasn't mentioned by one of the journalists as one of those "waiting for Zabłocki on a God's piste" yesterday. Apparently we've all thought it's a fake news as there was no news about it anywhere, not only from Polish or American media, but even on Olympedia, which is a strange thing for Olympian (Helsinki 1952) and World Championships medalist, being part of such a great team as him, Zabłocki or Pawłowski. But with a little bit of deeper research (which was needed after I asked for a dementi of that info and the editor-in-chief of the newspaper gave the date of 26th July 2015) we've found the confirmation - and @Dragon has already updated Olympedia thanks to that. Still it sounds quite impossible that such a person's death remains unnoticed by the internet. And yet it shows the power of that certain journalist - he's celebrating 50 years of work for the biggest Polish sports newspaper this year and he is nominated to the most prestigious sport journalist award in Poland, which will be given tomorrow (it's the Bohdan Tomaszewski Award - you might know the patron from the official Olympic Movie from Moscow as he was shown commentating the gold of Malinowski in 3000 m steeplechase: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xipsGMJDVpw - I personally refer to the journalists awarded with it as "The Order of the Garter of the Polish Sports Journalism" - and there's not a single one I doubt deserve it). hckošice 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PHI2019 188 Posted December 8, 2020 #437 Share Posted December 8, 2020 Arnie Robinson Jr, who won the gold medal in the long jump at the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal, has died at the age of 72. Montreal 1976 long jump champion Robinson dies age 72 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phelps 6,795 Posted December 10, 2020 #438 Share Posted December 10, 2020 he never participated to the Olympic games, but I just can't stay away from reporting the death of Paolo (Pablito) Rossi, great striker of the Italian football and absolute hero of the 1982 World Cup triumph... he was "only" 64, but cancer took him away from his family, friends and fans... R.I.P. Paolino... Gianlu33 and hckošice 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrv86 2,923 Posted December 20, 2020 #439 Share Posted December 20, 2020 Alberto Valdés Lacarra, Equestrian, 1980 Bronze medalist, Team Jumping Son of Alberto Valdés Ramos, 1948 Gold medalist in the same event. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Olympian1010 7,470 Posted December 25, 2020 #440 Share Posted December 25, 2020 Not an athlete, but a ceremony performer: https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1102389/supermodel-stella-tennant-dies-aged-50 “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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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