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Jul 27, 2024, 11:35 AM ET
PARIS — The workforce supervisor of the top-seeded males’s heavyweight boxer on the Paris Olympics died on the athletes village in Saint-Denis.
Lionel Elika Fatupaito died Friday morning on the village, the Oceania regional group of Olympic nationwide committees stated in a press release on behalf of its Samoan member.
The Worldwide Olympic Committee stated Elika Fatupaito died of pure causes. In a press release Saturday, the IOC expressed “its condolences to your entire Samoan NOC, his household and pals.”
Elika Fatupaito was on the Olympics with a Samoan workforce that has one boxer who’s a robust medal contender, Ato Plodzicki-Faoagali.
“No phrases can categorical how I really feel however relaxation in love coach Lionel,” Plodzicki-Faoagali wrote Saturday in an Instagram story about his workforce chief, whom he described as “Grand Grasp.”
Plodzicki-Faoagali, 25, begins his 92-kilogram competitors Sunday in a round-of-16 bout in opposition to a Belgian opponent. The Australia-born boxer is competing at his second Summer time Video games.
The Samoan Olympic physique’s president, Pauga Talalelei Pauga, stated within the Oceania assertion: “Lionel was one among Samoa’s high boxing coaches and an awesome believer within the Olympic preferrred.”
The Paris organizing committee stated it was “deeply saddened to be taught of the loss of life of a member of the Samoan delegation. Our ideas are along with his household, his family members and his delegation.”
