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Now that the Paris Olympics have started, here is a short piece on just some of the 403 known Olympians who lost their lives during the Second World War.
Géo André was a French track and field star whose first Olympics were those of London in 1908 and who, despite being badly wounded in the Great War, went on to shine at the 1920 and 1924 games. He enlisted again in North Africa and was killed in action aged 53 during the fighting for Tunis on 4 May 1943.
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