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Cuban Boxing Legend Teofilo Stevenson Narrowly Avoids Heart Attack

Feb. 3, 2012
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Cuba's three-time Olympic boxing champion, Teofilo Stevenson, was released from a hospital Wednesday after treatment for a blood clot near his heart, which was discovered during a routine examination.

"I was in danger without knowing it," the 59-year-old told dpa in Havana.

Stevenson won Olympic gold three times -- in Munich in 1972, Montreal in 1976 and in Moscow in 1980 -- and is vice president of the Cuban Boxing Federation.



Source: Copyright 2012 dpa Deutsche Presse-Agentur GmbH


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