Olympic boxing champion Spinks dies at 74
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LONDON, April 27 (Xinhua) -- Britain's Olympic boxing champion Terry Spinks has died after a long illness at 74, it was confirmed 1 Friday.
Spinks, who won an Olympic boxing gold medal at the 1956 Melbourne Games, died at his home in Essex just outside London.
"We are very sad Terry has passed away. He was a great boxer 2 and a very nice guy," British Boxing Board of Control general secretary Robert Smith said.
The later-turned-professional boxer has won 41 of 49 fights before retiring at the early age of 24.
Spinks later coached South Korea's boxing team at the 1972 Olympics in Munich.
adj.确认的；坚定的；根深蒂固的v.批准(confirm的过去式和过去分词)；证实
- Rumours of job losses were later confirmed. 裁员的传言后来得到了证实。
- The truth of his conjecture was confirmed by the newspaper report. 新闻报道证明了他的推测果然不假。
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