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Marathon fatality Lung transplant recipient who ran, dies
Posted: Friday November 12, 1999 11:38 AM
COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) -- Ketil Moe, a Norwegian lung transplant recipient who ran the New York City Marathon last week, collapsed two days ago during a stopover in Copenhagen on his way home, and died Friday. He was 32. The diabetic had been warned by his doctors not to run the marathon. But the physicans also warned him about many of the 12 marathons he had ran before his 1997 transplant, races he sometimes entered with bleeding lungs. "I hope I will survive," Moe said before the race. "It will be the toughest race ever." Before his transplant, Moe was confined to a wheelchair. On the plane back from New York, Moe became ill and collapsed Wednesday morning. He died at Copenhagen's university hospital of a bacterial infection. On Nov. 1, some 32,000 runners entered the 42.195-kilometer (26.2-mile) course through New York City. The race included several runners with major disabilities.
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