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[BethU]

There is a story about ALS on the front page of the LA Times today, in "Column One." That's above the fold and everything ... it's about a PALS who won a paralympics gold metal in sailing, and who just died at age 42. Interesting story but sad ...

It's at http://www.latimes.com/sports/la-sp-dwyre-scandone17-2009jan17,0,2861820.column

 

[Al]

Hi Beth. Does the article mention whether he is still alive? I thought I'd heard somewhere that a sailor with ALS at the olympics had passed away.

AL.

 

[BethU]

yes, he recently died at age 42. :-(

His crew member is also in a wheelchair, and her young son was fighting brain cancer as they competed. Quite a story. The boy is OK ...