Olympics is played once in 4 years. This is the biggest event of sports, in which thousands of players participate. Olympics started in 1896. This time Olympics will be organized in Paris, which is going to start from 26th July. Here more than 10 thousand athletes from all over the world will claim to win medals. Every athlete dreams of winning a medal in Olympics, but there have been some such occasions in Olympics when players have lost their lives in the middle of the game.

This player lost his life in a marathon

Francisco Lazaro of Portugal was the first athlete to die during the Olympics. Francisco Lazaro was a Portuguese Olympic marathon runner and was also the first flag bearer for Portugal at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics. Like all Olympic athletes of his time, Francisco Lazaro was not a full-time athlete, he worked as a carpenter in an automobile factory in Lisbon.

Before the 1912 Olympics, he had won three national marathon championships in Portugal. But during the Olympic marathon, he fell at the 30 kilometer mark, after which he died. When he fell, his body temperature was 41 °C. Later investigations revealed that Lazaro had covered a large part of his body with a hard fatty tissue (Suet) to avoid sunlight and maintain speed and lightness while running, which caused electrolyte imbalance in his body fluids. Let us tell you, he had also said before the marathon that either I will win or I will die.

This cyclist died in the middle of the race

Among the players who lost their lives in the Olympics is Danish cyclist Kundt Egmark Jensen, who died during the 1960 Olympics in Rome, Italy. Jensen was born in Aarhus. During his career, Kundt Egmark Jensen was also involved in doping.

On August 26, 1960, the 100 km cycling team trial race at the Rome Olympics was held at Viale Cristoforo Colombo in Rome at 40 degrees Celsius. Jorgen B Jorgensen, a player of the four-man Danish team, dropped out of the race due to sunstroke after the first lap of the race. After this, the remaining 3 players decided to complete the race. But during this time Kundt Egmark Jensen told his teammates that he was feeling dizzy and then he fell, due to which his skull was broken on the pavement. After this, Jensen was taken to the finish line by ambulance, where he died due to heat stroke. He was only 23 years old at that time.