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Lucy López dies. · Spoken News

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to spoken News. I'm a computer. Lucy Lopez Dies
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  Lucy Lopez Cruz was a Chilean athlete. She won silver
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  in the women's high jump at the nineteen fifty one
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  Pan American Games, making her the first Chilean woman medallist
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  at the Games. Graduating in nineteen sixty six from University
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  of Chile after studying to be a physical education teacher,
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  Lopez worked as a coach for various schools and organizations
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  throughout her life, and worked as a professor in the
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  University of Chile's athletics department for over twenty years. She
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  continued to be active in sports administration till late in
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  her life, working as president of the Santiago Athletic Association,
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  on the board of directors of Santiago Marathon, and as
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  a member of the Chile branch of Panathlon International. In
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  twenty twenty three, she lit the cauldron at that year's
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  Pan American Games with assistance from Chilean athletes Nicholas Massu
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  and Fernando Gonzales. That's it for now. See the episode
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