Could have been 80. Ever heard of Borja Gómez? No? He was a motorcycle racer. Not a good enough one, it seems. Died yesterday during the training session in Magny-Cours. He was just 20 and the link is in Spanish.
According to the article, it was cardiac arrest.
I swear that wasn’t there a few minutes ago!
Plus a lot of hard miles on that chassis.
More news about Diogo Jota’s accident:
According to Portuguese media A Bola, Diogo Jota and his brother made the trip by car on their way to Santander to catch a ferry to Portsmouth, a journey that takes two nights, a total of 31 hours. The decision to make such a long trip was due to the Portuguese international’s advice not to travel by plane to avoid cabin pressure following the lung surgery he underwent after the Nations League. [translated from the Spanish sports newspaper AS - link]
The devil is devious. It’s his job.
I remember when Paul Mullin of Wrexham FC got a punctured lung during an exhibition match in Los Angeles and couldn’t fly back to Wales for weeks until his lung was sufficiently healed for exactly this reason. You do not want your lung to literally pop mid-flight.
Never heard of this young woman, but this would be an awful way to go, and far too young.
If anybody had gone with a theme of sports figures dying in motor vehicles, they would have scored 227 points yesterday, with Andre and Dioga Silva and Borja Gomez.
Billy Hunter, who had a rather unremarkable 6-year MLB career in the 1950s, has passed away at 97.
What makes this newsworthy is that he was the last surviving St. Louis Browns player, as well as the last surviving member of the inaugural Baltimore Orioles team in 1954.
RIP Admiral Piett
Julian McMahon, 56.
Australian actor and son of a former Prime Minister.
Played Doctor Doom in two Fantastic Four movies, the ones with Michael Chiklis.
He was just in The Residence as the Australian Prime Minister. I had no idea he was actually the son of one in real life.
Oh, wow, I liked that show.
He played the Prime Minister of Australia Stephen Roos in Netflix’s “The Residence.” I’m guessing that was an intentional thing. (In other heads-of-state roles, he also played POTUS in “Red.”)
Also, I had no idea he was married to Kylie Minogue’s sister at one point. (Kylie played herself in “The Residence.”)
Probably won’t be in season 2.
Bad news. The Residence was cancelled today.
Don’t want to derail this, but The Residence was a one-and-done, so it was not so much cancelled as concluded.
OK, but I read about it here.
I didn’t notice that he looked sick.