Dianne Durham, first Black national gymnastics champion, dies at 52

[basquebromance]

Her victory in the all-around at the 1983 national championships as a teenager was the first by a Black woman

that's how it started...AND THIS IS HOW IT ENDS?

 

[Mac-7]

that's how it started...AND THIS IS HOW IT ENDS?

What caused her death?

 

[harmonica]

never heard of her

 

[basquebromance]

that's how it started...AND THIS IS HOW IT ENDS?

What caused her death?

"an unspecified illness", they say...so probably covid

 

[BlindBoo]

RIP

 

[Canon Shooter]

that's how it started...AND THIS IS HOW IT ENDS?

What caused her death?

"an unspecified illness", they say...so probably covid

No, if it was Covid they'd be shouting it from the rooftops...

 

[boedicca]

that's how it started...AND THIS IS HOW IT ENDS?

What caused her death?

"an unspecified illness", they say...so probably covid

If it were Covid, it would be the headline.

Sad she died so young.

 

[Mac-7]

No, if it was Covid they'd be shouting it from the rooftops...

Correction

with the SOF (Senile Old Fool) in the white house now its fashionable to underreport china virus deaths

 

[22lcidw]

Athletes that die young a lot of times I question. Steroids can have a long term affect.

 

[Juicin]

1983? How does this go in this subforum

She's a black gymnast so what? I bet we had them before 1983

Racializing something that has nothing to do with race...