US 400m great and rights activist Lee Evans dies at 74
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19/05/2021 - 22:35 Gold medal winner: Lee Evans (centre) crosses the finish line of the Men s 400m final at the 1968 Mexico Olympics - EPU/AFP/File 3 min
Los Angeles (AFP)
Lee Evans, the 1968 Olympic 400m champion and a founding member of the Olympic Project for Human Rights, has died at the age of 74, USA Track and Field said Wednesday.
The USATF did not give a cause of death, but the San Jose Mercury News reported that Evans suffered a stroke last week in Nigeria and had remained unconscious in hospital there.
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