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Former Olympic water polo champion Mirko Sandić passed away at 64 in Belgrade (Serbia) on 24 December. With the Yugoslav team, he competed in four Olympics (1960-1972). He won a silver medal in the 1964 Tokyo Games, and the Olympic title four years later in Mexico. With the national team, he also won two bronze medals in the European Championships.

In club competition, he played for Partizan Beograd, and won 11 national championships, 7 national cups and 5 times the European Club Championship. After his active career, he became a coach, and was inducted in the International Swimming Hall of Fame in 1999.

Ivar Formo, Olympic champion in the 50 km cross country at the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck drowned on 26 December. He was skating on the Store Sandungen lake in Nordmarka (near Oslo) when the ice broke.

Formo (55) first competed in the Olympics in Sapporo, when he won a bronze medal in the 15 km, and a silver with the Norwegian relay team. In Innsbruck he repeated his silver in the 4 x 10 km event, and took a bronze in the 1974 Orienteering World Championships.

Mexican ex-wrestler Alberto Bremauntz Monge died 16 December. He competed in the 1972 Olympics, losing both his matches in the Greco-Roman lightweight division. Bremauntz later became the president of the Mexican Olympians Association, and a member of the Mexican Olympic Committee.