Notable athletes who have died in plane crashesBy Houston Mitchell
“The thing that really hurts me is that people are looking at Palestinians as just numbers now. The number of people that died. The number of people displaced,” Palestinian American Olympic swimmer Valerie Tarazi told the AP on Sunday. “As athletes, we’re here just as everyone else. We...
In her pocket was a Norwegian flag in memory of her friend, snowboarder Line Østvold, who died in a training accident in 2004 aged 25.Frieden, whose mother is from Norway, is fluent in Norwegian, as well as the Swiss German dialect of her native area. She also can spea...
The British Milers Club is staging a new Bannister Mile Series in memory of Sir Roger Bannister, who died last month aged 88. Sir Roger ran the world’s first sub-4 minute Mile... Read More comments Finishing the Race March 10, 2018 It is hard to put into words the impact Roger ...
“What we found after she died were a bunch of notes and self-recorded videos of her speaking her true self,” Rodgers says. “I feel like if she had a group to go to who were her age, who didn’t have the ability to rip her out of the team, I think it would’ve been exactl...
While direct evidence of an inflammatory response in humans is rare, when four young athletes who died from other causes shortly after SRCs were investigated clusters of activated perivascular microglia were observed in subcortical white matter tracts indicating an inflammatory response [30]. In a ...
BOSTON – A new study published in JAMA Neurology finds evidence of brain damage in athletes who died young, and it could provide insight for parents of children who play contact sports. Chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE, is a degenerative brain disease caused by repetitive head trauma. ...
This is a list of the greatest Olympic athletes from Germany, with photos when available. These are the best German Olympians of all time who have had the ...
It wasn’t that long ago that London didn’t really have many big half marathons. There was Run to the Beat, which died an embarassing death after a few fiascos and loosing their sponsors, and there’s the Royal Parks Half who insist on a ballot only entry system which I find frustrat...
Overview:In honor of former Iowa State University basketball player Brian Pearson, who died of brain cancer in the fall of 1997, the Iowa Games began awarding the Brian Pearson Memorial Scholarship in 1998. One $1,000 scholarship annually will be awarded to one male and one female Iowan. Thr...