diego 1,980 Posted June 24 Zhang Xuelei died at the age of 61, he was a Chinese basketball player who participated in the 1988 Olympics https://www.cna.com.tw/news/aspt/202406230015.aspx Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
diego 1,980 Posted June 24 Péter Kovács was born in Heves, Hungary and died at the age of 64. He competed at the 1980 Summer Olympics in all artistic gymnastics events and won the bronze medal with the Hungarian team. Individually, her best achievement was fifth place on the floor exercise. An element in the horizontal bar is named after Kovács. https://24.hu/sport/2024/06/22/kovacs-peter-torna-meghalt/ Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
diego 1,980 Posted June 26 Claude Buchon was born in Saint-Brieuc and died at the age of 75, he was a French cyclist. He competed in the team time trial event at the 1976 Summer Olympics https://www.letelegramme.fr/sports/cyclisme/le-cycliste-briochin-claude-buchon-est-decede-6610715.php Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
diego 1,980 Posted June 26 Kaye Breadsell, born in Perth and died aged 82, was an Australian gymnast. She competed in five events at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome at age 18 https://thewest.com.au/news/obituaries/kaye-brajkovich-one-of-was-first-female-olympic-gymnasts-farewelled-after-dying-aged-82-c-15115096 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
diego 1,980 Posted June 26 Dragan Kapičić was born in Belgrade and died aged 75 in the same city, was a Serbian professional basketball player and executive. He won two Yugoslav National League championships, three Yugoslav National Cup titles and one FIBA European Cup Winners' Cup championship secondary level (later called the FIBA Saporta Cup). He is the Red Star club's all-time leader in total points scored. He played 169 matches for the Yugoslavia senior team. He represented Yugoslavia at the 1972 Munich Summer Olympics. [3] With Yugoslavia he won gold medals at the 1970 FIBA World Championship and 1975 EuroBasket. was the President of the Basketball Federation of Serbia, from April 2007 to April 2011. His son Stefan (b. 1978) is an actor best known for playing his role of Colossus in Deadpool (2016) and Deadpool 2 (2018). https://www.politika.rs/scc/clanak/620145/Sport/Kosarka/Preminuo-nekadasnji-jugoslovenski-kosarkaski-reprezentativac-Dragan-Kapicic Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
diego 1,980 Posted June 27 The first Portuguese woman to compete in fencing at the Olympic Games was Maria José Nápoles and she died at the age of 87, she competed in the Olympics in 1960 Esgrima de luto ｜ A BOLA (BR) (nordot.app) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
diego 1,980 Posted June 27 Fernando Bolea was born in Zaragoza and died in Valladolid at the age of 59, and was a Spanish handball player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1992 Summer Olympics https://www.heraldo.es/noticias/deportes/2024/06/27/muere-fernando-bolea-simbolo-eterno-del-balonmano-aragones-1744834.html Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
alt obits guy 3,371 Posted July 3 Sarah Baker, who won three Paralympic medals for Canada and who set world records in swimming and javelin while also starring in wheelchair basketball, has died. She was either 40 or 41. Baker had been battling pancreatic cancer. https://atlantic.ctvnews.ca/nova-scotia-paralympian-sarah-baker-dies-1.6949077 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sir Creep 7,070 Posted July 5 Someone has to say it. Paralympics isn’t the Olympics. It’s fake Olympic shit. Right up there with the Special Olympics. Post their obits too why dontchya. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jimbean1121 238 Posted July 5 6 minutes ago, Sir Creep said: Someone has to say it. Paralympics isn’t the Olympics. It’s fake Olympic shit. Right up there with the Special Olympics. Post their obits too why dontchya. wait how is it fake?? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
arrowsmith 445 Posted July 5 38 minutes ago, jimbean1121 said: wait how is it fake?? Are you actually expecting a rational explanation? My theory is sir creep gets drunk once a week and says whatever pops into his head in as he reads each thread. 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jimbean1121 238 Posted July 5 9 hours ago, arrowsmith said: Are you actually expecting a rational explanation? My theory is sir creep gets drunk once a week and says whatever pops into his head in as he reads each thread. makes sense Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 21,033 Posted July 10 Brian Kilby, who competed for Team GB in the marathon at the 1960 and 1964 Olympiads, reportedly dead: https://athleticsweekly.com/athletics-news/brian-kilby-european-and-commonwealth-marathon-champion-dies-aged-86-1039989361/ He finished fourth, agonisingly short of the podium at the 1964 Games. However, he was a gold medallist at the European Championships and the British Empire and Commonwealth Games both held in 1962. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gisooo 3,305 Posted July 10 Antonio Carattino (Wiki), Italian sailor who competed in the 1952 Summer Olympics, in the 1956 Summer Olympics, and in the 1968 Summer Olympics dead at 101 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Octopus of Odstock 2,187 Posted July 15 Is there an Olympian with a more Germanic name than Hans-Otto Schumacher? Possibly not, but this 1972 silver medallist in the C-2 canoeing event is dead - https://trauer.rp-online.de/traueranzeige/hans-otto-schumacher Also a World Champion, part of the winning C2 team in the 1973 Canoe Slalom World Championships in Switzerland. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ulitzer95 12,583 Posted July 16 Frank O'Neill (wiki), Aussie swimmer at the 1952 Olympics, dead at 97. *the first Aussie to swim 110 yards in under a minute *taught Ginger Rogers and Greta Garbo to swim, taught an elderly W. Somerset Maugham how to dive! 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Summer in Transylvania 2,173 Posted July 16 13 minutes ago, Ulitzer95 said: *the first Aussie to swim 110 years in under a minute Strewth, how fast was he going? 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ulitzer95 12,583 Posted July 16 42 minutes ago, Summer in Transylvania said: Strewth, how fast was he going? God I bloody hate the auto correct on Apple!! YARDS, I meant YARDS. Haha 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Old Crem 3,582 Posted July 23 On 23/05/2024 at 08:52, Sly Ronnie said: Who are the best-known Dutch Olympians? The only one I know of is Fanny Blankers-Koen who won 4 gold medals in 1948. Mind you, Femke Bol may end up being well-known by the end of the summer! Probably now that rapist on their volleyball team. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
maryportfuncity 10,645 Posted July 24 Not a death or owt but dunno where else to post this. Until the editors get there, which is doubtless about to happen, the current Wiki entry on our greatest equestrian opens with a corker of a sentence: Charlotte Susan Jane Dujardin CBE (born 13 July 1985) is a British dressage rider, equestrian, horse abuser and writer. 6 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
harrymcnallysblueandwhitearmy 1,688 Posted July 26 On 24/07/2024 at 13:15, maryportfuncity said: Not a death or owt but dunno where else to post this. Until the editors get there, which is doubtless about to happen, the current Wiki entry on our greatest equestrian opens with a corker of a sentence: Charlotte Susan Jane Dujardin CBE (born 13 July 1985) is a British dressage rider, equestrian, horse abuser and writer. Now I’m no expert in pointlessly whipping horses’ legs, but the opprobrium directed at this posho seems a trifle excessive. Having seen the offending video nasty, it doesn’t seem any worse than a jockey thrashing a horse’s arse a few times at the end of a race. After all, someone has to learn these ignorant geegees how to walk sideways to an ABBA song for our amusement, don’t they? It’s quite similar to the recent Strictly hoohah, mistreating dumb animals like Zara McThingamajig. 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Sinbabad 1,115 Posted July 26 On 27/02/2022 at 14:26, whoismakoto said: List of known living participants of 1948 London Olympics Olympian Birth date Country Sport Comment Charles Coste 08/02/1924 France Cycling Gold medalist He was the third to the last torch bearer tonight. He was wheelchair bound and hold the torch during a few seconds before giving it to Teddy Riner and Marie Jose Perec. 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 21,033 Posted July 26 1 minute ago, Sinbabad said: He was the third to the last torch bearer tonight. He was wheelchair bound and hold the torch during a few seconds before giving it to Teddy Riner and Marie Jose Perec. Absolutely addicted to being on wheels that one. 2 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Genfærd 452 Posted July 27 A samoan boxing coach died today in Paris ahead of the Olympics 2024. Source: https://www.iba.sport/news/iba-mourns-passed-away-samoa-coach-lionel-elika-fatupaito/ 2 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
YoungWillz 21,033 Posted August 3 Algeria's first Olympic medallist Mustapha Moussa, who won bronze in the boxing light-heavyweight division at the 1984 Olympiad alongside little known boxer Evander Holyfield, reportedly dead: 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
