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[q
url="http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8T884N01&show_article=1"]CLEARWATER,
Fla. (AP) - Evel Knievel, the hard-living motorcycle daredevil whose
jumps over Greyhound buses, live sharks and Idaho's Snake River Canyon
made him an international icon in the 1970s, died Friday. He was 69.
Knievel's death was confirmed by his granddaughter, Krysten Knievel.
He had been in failing health for years, suffering from diabetes and
pulmonary fibrosis, an incurable condition that scarred his lungs.
Knievel had undergone a liver transplant in 1999 after nearly dying
of hepatitis C, likely contracted through a blood transfusion after one
of his bone-shattering spills.
Immortalized in the Washington's Smithsonian Institution as
"America's Legendary Daredevil," Knievel was best known for a failed
1974 attempt to jump Snake River Canyon on a rocket-powered cycle and a
spectacular crash at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas. He suffered nearly
40 broken bones before he retired in 1980.[/q]
Motorcycle daredevil Evel Knievel, who was an international icon in the 1970s, has died aged 69.Knievel's death was confirmed by his granddaughter, Krysten Knievel.
He had been in failing health for years, suffering from diabetes and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, an incurable condition that scarred his lungs.
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