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Lee Evans Dies: Two-Time Gold Medal Winner And Protester At ’68 Mexico City Olympics Was 74

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Lee Evans, who won two gold medals at the 1968 Summer Olympic Games in Mexico City and was part of the Black protests against perceived US racism, died on Wednesday.

He was 74 and no cause of death was revealed by the USA Track and Field organization, which did not provide further details.But the San Jose Mercury News in Evans’s hometown quoted friends as saying that he died in a hospital in Nigeria after suffering a stroke.

Evans allegedly collapsed at a friend’s dinner party last week, according to the news outlet.Evans joined several other athletes in raising fists and wearing Black berets on the winners stand at Mexico City, considered a shocking political move at the time.

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