SIDELINES : Cycling Union President Dies
VALENCIA, Spain — International Cycling Union President Luis Puig Esteve died today in a local hospital after spending six days in a coma following a stroke, a hospital spokesman said. He was 75.
Puig suffered a stroke Thursday and had been in the intensive care unit of La Fe Hospital in this eastern city, the spokesman said.
The cycling union chief had been in very poor health since suffering a brain hemorrhage April 5, said the spokesman, who was not identified.
Born in 1915 in the Valencia province town of Alcudia, Puig headed the Spanish Cycling Federation from 1968 to 1981. He was elected to head the world’s top cycling body in 1981 and was reelected to the post in 1985 and 1989.
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