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Jim Thompson

Age: 60

CEO of the Canadian Olympic Committee (COC), who came out of retirement in January to fill the post left vacant by Carol Anne Letheren, who died in February 2001; accomplished sports broadcasting executive in Canada for more than three decades. He died of a heart attack.

Died: Vancouver, B.C., Canada, Aug. 14

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