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Oldest Olympic Champion Dies at 102

Sandor Tarics, who competed at Berlin Games.

Sandor Tarics, the world’s oldest Olympian, has died at age 102 in San Francisco, according to the Hungarian Olympic Committee MOB website. He was a member of the Hungarian water polo team that won during the Nazi-organized Berlin Olympics in 1936. Tarics came to the United States from Hungary in 1949 and went on to become a designer of earthquake-resistant building technology. He went to the 2012 London Olympics and when asked before his death about attending the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, he said: “We will see, it is hard to plan things so much forward.”

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