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" Oerter died on October 1, 2007, of heart failure in Fort Myers, Florida at the age of 71.
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Many felt that Oerter, at 32, was finished since Oerter had never thrown as far as Silvester did on his average throws.
At the Olympics, however, Oerter released another Olympic record throw of on his third throw.
For these works, Oerter would lay a puddle of a paint on a tarp, and fling a discus into it to create splashing lines on a canvas positioned in front of the tarp.
Before his death, Oerter was close to obtaining the rights to use the Olympic rings on the gallery building.
Oerter and October
Alfred Oerter, Jr. ( September 19, 1936 – October 1, 2007 ) was an American athlete, and a four-time Olympic Champion in the discus throw.
Oerter and 2007
* 1936 – Al Oerter, American discus thrower ( d. 2007 )
Oerter and heart
On March 13, 2003, Oerter was briefly clinically dead ; a change of blood pressure medications caused a fluid build-up around his heart.
Oerter and at
A large man at 6 ' 4 " ( 193 cm ) and 280 pounds ( 127 kg ), Oerter was a natural thrower.
Oerter began his Olympic career at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne.
Oerter returned to the Olympics in 1968 at Mexico City but he had yielded the position of favorite to teammate Jay Silvester.
Meanwhile, Carl Lewis won his fourth consecutive Olympic title in the long jump, becoming only the second person, after Al Oerter, to win the same athletics event at four consecutive Games.
Oerter and .
edited by Robert Oerter, Pi Press, ISBN 0-13-187291-5.
Oerter was the first athlete to win a gold medal in the same individual event in four consecutive Olympics, a feat only matched by Carl Lewis in the long jump.
Born in Astoria, Queens, New York City, Al Oerter grew up in New Hyde Park and attended Sewanhaka High School in Floral Park.
Oerter continued throwing and eventually earned a scholarship to the University of Kansas in 1954 where he became a member of Delta Tau Delta Fraternity.
He gave Oerter advice before his fifth throw ; Oerter threw his discus, setting an Olympic record.
During the early 1960s, Oerter continued to have success, setting his first world record in 1962.
Injuries again seemed to have felled Oerter before the Games.
Competing in great pain, Oerter set a new Olympic standard and won a third Olympic gold medal despite not being able to take his last throw due to the pain from his ribs.
Oerter retired from athletics after the 1968 Olympics.
In later years, Oerter carried the Olympic flag for the 1984 Summer Olympics, then carried Olympic flame into the stadium for the 1996 Olympic Games.
As a child, Oerter had frequently traveled to his grandparents ' home in Manhattan and admired their art collection.
As a retired athlete, Oerter became an abstract painter.
Oerter enjoyed the freedom of abstract art, and thus decided against formal schooling for his art, as he thought it might stifle his creativity.
If the discus landed painted-face up, Oerter would sign it and give it to whoever purchased the painting.
died and on
But he plunges into yet another, this time with Norway, and is killed in an assault on the fortress of Fredrikshall, being only thirty-six years of age when he died.
Princes and factions clashed in the open street and died on the open scaffold.
The canons, in a body, had tried to force him on his deathbed to let them give him the last rites of the Church, but he had died still proclaiming salvation by faith.
People died, she would have said, in hospitals, or in cars on the highway at night.
Suppose John Jones, who, for 1960, filed on the basis of a calendar year, died June 20, 1961.
And Houston police have the final say in the matter since she died there on September 20, 1960, `` Diane Harris Graham, 30, D.O.A., circumstances -- unusual ''.
McClellan, who had once lost his medical license temporarily on a charge of drug addiction, was with her when she died.
she died on August sixth.
One young man, exhilarated to the point of insanity by liquor and the excitement of the moment, performed a perfect swan dive out of the stands at the Yale Bowl during the Yale-Army football game, landed squarely on his head on the concrete ramp below, and died at once.
This leads Irenaeus to the somewhat startling notion that Adam and Eve died on the same day that they disobeyed, namely, on a Friday, as a parallel to the death of Christ on Good Friday ; ;
A year ago it was bruited that the primary character in Erich Maria Remarque's new novel was based on the Marquis Alfonso De Portago, the Spanish nobleman who died driving in the Mille Miglia automobile race of 1957.
But Mary would soon no longer be living there, for she would be notified in a few days that her husband had died in an accident while on a flight to Tahiti.
As he died because of a small wound on his heel, the term Achilles ' heel has come to mean one's point of weakness.
She died on August 25, most likely of typhoid fever.
Edward died on February 1, 1850, in Springfield, likely of tuberculosis.
" Willie " Lincoln was born on December 21, 1850, and died on February 20, 1862.
The Lincolns ' fourth son, Thomas " Tad " Lincoln, was born on April 4, 1853, and died of heart failure at the age of 18 on July 16, 1871.
The obituary stated (" The merchant of death is dead ") and went on to say, " Dr. Alfred Nobel, who became rich by finding ways to kill more people faster than ever before, died yesterday.
Alp Arslan died four days later from this wound on 25 November 1072 in his 42nd year, and was taken to Merv to be buried next to his father Chaghri Beg.
Aaron died on the summit of the mountain, and the people mourned for him thirty days ( Numbers 20: 22-29 ; compare 33: 38-39 ).
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