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Cancer claims former motorbike champion
The city of Coventry is mourning the passing of former world motorbike racing champion Gary Green, the Coventry Evening Telegraph has reported.
Mr Green went on to become a world champion for 24-hour endurance racing in the late 1970s.
He specialised in endurance races like Le Mans 24, competing all over the world and winning a host of trophies, in Europe and the Caribbean.
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Mr Green, who died at the age of 61, had been inspired to take up racing motorbikes by a policeman, who had stopped him on suspicion of driving without motorbike insurance.
In October 2004 Gary was diagnosed with medullary carcinoma, a rare and terminal form of thyroid cancer.
He lost his fight against the disease on May 3rd.
Lorraine Green, his widow, told the Coventry paper about the support she has received since his death: "I was overwhelmed with the amount of phone calls and flowers and support I've had from all over the world."
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