Follow live coverage of day five of the 2024 Paris Olympics, including dedicated basketball, swimming, and soccer coverage Lionel Fatu Elika, the national boxing coach of Samoa, died Friday at the ...

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The Samoan sporting community has suffered a tragic loss at the 2024 Paris Olympics. Lionel Fatu Elika, the country's national boxing coach, died in the athletes’ Olympic Village July 26, the first ...

Samoan boxing coach Lionel Elika Fatupaito died at the 2024 Paris Olympics on Friday, July 26. The Samoa Association of Sport and National Olympic Committee confirmed that the manager passed away in ...

Lionel Fatu Elika, the country's national boxing coach, died in the athletes’ Olympic Village July 26, the first day of the Games. He was 60 years old. The coach, who was working with Samoa's lone ...

WASHINGTON — The national boxing coach for Samoa died at the athletes village for the Paris Olympics after suffering a cardiac arrest just hours before the Games began, officials said on Saturday.