CONCERNING LEE EVANS: Doctor says, "Good evening, sir. He is at Intensive Care Unit. He was intubated earlier today."
Mr. Lee Evans is dying. Yet, he must not die without being given every chance to live. Particularly because he is an American, a citizen of the greatest country for advances in medicine in the world. Lee Evans is a world renowned former Olympic athlete and distinguished elite coach, an American sports hero, a member of the USA Athletics Hall of Fame.
During his years running in the late 1960s and early 1970s, Lee was a 'god', loved and celebrated around the world. He was what Usain Bolt became at his most popular but short of the flamboyance, publicity and celebrity brand capitalizing fortunes of present-day athletics.
Lee Evans was the first human to break the 45-seconds barrier for the 400 metres event when he was just 21. Thereafter, he broke 11 world records over different distances during his career as a sprints athlete. When he broke the World Record in 400 m for the last time it was at the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico Citywhere he also collected two solid Gold Medals. That record stood for 20 years and was only broken by Michael Johnson who had to cover the distance at an almost humanly impossible even pace---unseen before, or since, in athletics.
Lee's second Olympic Gold Medal was in the 4 x 400m relay race.
After his career as an athlete, Lee became one of the greatest sprints coaches in the world. following the template of his coach and mentor, another Hall of Famer, Lloyd Bud Winters. Lee has travelled the world working in different countries including Nigeria where he worked the longest and has coached a legion of some of Nigeria's greatest athletes in history.
He is a pioneer member for Human Rights.
In short, Lee Edward Evans is a true American legendary sports hero. He has been supporting my great friend, Mr. John Cashin, in Nigeria for over 2 years as a volunteer coach of young boys and girls at the Segun Odegbami International College and Sports Academy (SOCA) in Waimi Orile, Ogun State, and transforming young lives positively. Mr. Evans is presently at Babcock University Teaching Hospital, Ilishan, where he remains unconscious after suddenly collapsing three days earlier.
The man must not die this cheaply. Nobody dies like a chicken in America anymore. This should not happen to any citizen of the most advanced country in the world, least of all their own citizen, a hero and celebrated global sports ambassador. We Americans owe ourselves the responsibility to get Lee to the best medical facility on earth in the United States, immediately. THIS IS WHAT I HUMBLY ASK OF ALL AMERICANS AND THE U.S. GOVERNMENT NOW: to step in immediately and evacuate Lee Evans to the United States of America and give him a chance to survive his present, critical medical situation. To waste any time beyond the immediate will not be good enough. To leave him in Nigeria is to sign his death warrant.
PLEASE REACH OUT TO SEGUN ODEGBAMI IN LAGOS, NIGERIA.
Mr. Lee Evans is dying. Yet, he must not die without being given every chance to live. Particularly because he is an American, a citizen of the greatest country for advances in medicine in the world. Lee Evans is a world renowned former Olympic athlete and distinguished elite coach, an American sports hero, a member of the USA Athletics Hall of Fame.
During his years running in the late 1960s and early 1970s, Lee was a 'god', loved and celebrated around the world. He was what Usain Bolt became at his most popular but short of the flamboyance, publicity and celebrity brand capitalizing fortunes of present-day athletics.
Lee Evans was the first human to break the 45-seconds barrier for the 400 metres event when he was just 21. Thereafter, he broke 11 world records over different distances during his career as a sprints athlete. When he broke the World Record in 400 m for the last time it was at the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico Citywhere he also collected two solid Gold Medals. That record stood for 20 years and was only broken by Michael Johnson who had to cover the distance at an almost humanly impossible even pace---unseen before, or since, in athletics.
Lee's second Olympic Gold Medal was in the 4 x 400m relay race.
After his career as an athlete, Lee became one of the greatest sprints coaches in the world. following the template of his coach and mentor, another Hall of Famer, Lloyd Bud Winters. Lee has travelled the world working in different countries including Nigeria where he worked the longest and has coached a legion of some of Nigeria's greatest athletes in history.
He is a pioneer member for Human Rights.
In short, Lee Edward Evans is a true American legendary sports hero. He has been supporting my great friend, Mr. John Cashin, in Nigeria for over 2 years as a volunteer coach of young boys and girls at the Segun Odegbami International College and Sports Academy (SOCA) in Waimi Orile, Ogun State, and transforming young lives positively. Mr. Evans is presently at Babcock University Teaching Hospital, Ilishan, where he remains unconscious after suddenly collapsing three days earlier.
The man must not die this cheaply. Nobody dies like a chicken in America anymore. This should not happen to any citizen of the most advanced country in the world, least of all their own citizen, a hero and celebrated global sports ambassador. We Americans owe ourselves the responsibility to get Lee to the best medical facility on earth in the United States, immediately. THIS IS WHAT I HUMBLY ASK OF ALL AMERICANS AND THE U.S. GOVERNMENT NOW: to step in immediately and evacuate Lee Evans to the United States of America and give him a chance to survive his present, critical medical situation. To waste any time beyond the immediate will not be good enough. To leave him in Nigeria is to sign his death warrant.
PLEASE REACH OUT TO SEGUN ODEGBAMI IN LAGOS, NIGERIA.
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