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Two-time gold winner Kolonics dies during practice session

Associated Press

Tuesday, July 15, 2008

BUDAPEST, Hungary -- Gyorgy Kolonics, a canoeing gold medalist at the 1996 and 2000 Olympics, died Tuesday after collapsing in his canoe while training for the Beijing Games. He was 36. He lost consciousness and paramedics were unable to resuscitate him, the Hungarian Olympic Committee said. The committee cited heart failure as the probable cause of death. "Kolonics was a true legend of Hungarian sports, an athlete at the peak of his career who was in a class by himself," committee president ...

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