An Olympic volleyball champion dies after falling from a seventeenth floor





An Olympic volleyball champion dies after falling from a seventeenth floor














































The Brazilian Walewska Oliveira, already withdrawn but Olympic champion in 2008, died this Thursday at age 43

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Walewska Oliveira has died after falling from a seventeenth floor of a building

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The former Brazilian player Walewska OliveiraOlympic champion in Beijing 2008, He died on Thursday night after falling from a seventeenth floor in Sao Paulo. He was 43 years old.


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The Brazilian Volleyball Confederation announced the death of the International in a statement, although it did not quote the reason for his death. However, Sao Paulo's press has referred in the last hours to a police report that talks about that fall in a building.

Oliveira abandoned the practice of volleyball last year. He did it after a long career in which, in addition to that gold in Beijing, a bronze was hung in Sydney 2000. He was also Olympic in Athens 2004, when Brazil finished fourth. In addition, he retired with a worldwide money, with two golds and a bronze in the World Cup and with a gold and a silver in Pan American Games.

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