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Lung Cancer Survivor Wins Gold at Rio 2016 Olympics

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It's absolutely amazing to see a lung cancer survivor win a gold medal in sailing at the ‪Rio 2016‬ Olympics.

Santiago Lange is now the oldest medalist at the olympics at age 54. He had his left lung removed due to ‪‎lung cancer‬. What a great inspiration!

The story: cnn.it/2b06AGy

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This is inspiring So happy for him

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Oh, my!

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Wow, he is an inspiration to us all.

Thats fantastic and i'm sure it made us want to fight harder Jo

That is really fantastic,it should make us fight even harder. You have a choice either die or live and I choose to live.

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