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THE PRICE OF GLORY - Tragic Sports Stories
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by B. Zelley | September 30, 2009 at 08:39 pm
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In recent months there have been a flurry of tragic sports stories from Athletics to Boxing.
One recent case is the death of 19 year old LEON ROACH, UC san Diego Pole Vaulter following a tragic accident/
In boxing there has been the recent deaths of Alexis Arguello, Arturo Gatti, Vernon Forrest, Mark Leduc and Darren Sutherland.
Looking back over the decades there have been countless stories of tragedy such as the Munich Air Disaster and the loss of member of the Manchester United football/soccer club in 1958. Then fast forward to 1980 and the air disaster in Poland and loss of members of the 1980 USA Olympic Boxing Team. And in 2009, there is the anniversary of the stadium tragedy in England that resulted in multiple deaths of soccer fans.
Vehicle accidents have taken it's toll on the sporting world with such deaths as Oregon's STEVE PREFONTAINE and many others such as the old heavyweight champion JACK JOHNSON and many others. Other accidents have claimed the likes of ROCKY MARCIANO, MARCEL CERDAN and ZORA FOLLEY.
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at 20:58 on September 30th, 2009
http://www.prefontainerun.com/index.html STEVE PREFONTAINE site
at 08:50 on October 1st, 2009
There are so many stories of individuals in any sport. Stories of what could have been. I heard of so many stories of men who have died who could have been the next Michael Jordan or Wayne Gretzky.
at 18:46 on October 4th, 2009
http://www.eastsideboxing.com/forum/showthread.php?t=94173
The great "If Only" - If only we could turn back the clock to time before the final date with destiny.
The link is to some Tragic Boxing comments, photos and links.
One such story and link related to Victor (Young) Perez who met his final fate at the hands of the Nazis in the infamous "Death March" from Auschwitz in WW II.