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Bronze winning hockey Olympian Vece Paes dead

Kolkata, Aug 14 (UNI) Dr Vece Paes, a distinguished member of India's Bronze medal-winning hockey team at the 1972 Munich Olympics, died at a private hospital here today following old age complications, a medical bulletin said.
He was 80 and left behind his son, former Indian tennis ace Leander Paes, who won the bronze for India in the 1996 Atlanta Olympics.
Vece Paes, also a renowned sports medicine specialist, was admitted to a city hospital late on August 12, with multiorgan dysfunction due to lower respiratory tract and gastrointestinal tract infections.
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