Italy鈥檚 former Olympian Sabia dies from COVID-19
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Twice Olympic 800-meter finalist Donato Sabia has died from COVID-19 at the age of 56, the Italian Olympic Committee said yesterday.
CONI said in a statement that Sabia had been in the intensive care unit of the San Carlo hospital on Potenza, in the southern Italian region of Basilicata, for 鈥渁 few days.鈥 Sabia finished fifth in the 800 at Los Angeles in 1984 and seventh in Seoul four years later. He won the gold medal in the same event at the European indoor championships in 1984. According to CONI, he is the first Olympic finalist in the world to die from the virus. The Italian athletics federation, which described him as 鈥渁n extraordinarily talented athlete but, above all, a gentle person,鈥 said that Sabia鈥檚 father had also died from COVID-19 a few days earlier. 鈥淚t鈥檚 a tragedy within a tragedy,鈥 said FIDAL President Alfio Giomi. 鈥淒onato was a person who you couldn鈥檛 not love.鈥
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