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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/

 

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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

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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

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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.

 

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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??

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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. 

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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

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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.

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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

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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.

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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!

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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 :lol:

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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. 

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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: 

 

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