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Former European boxing champion Tibeiro Mitri dead at 74 ROME (AP) - Tiberio Mitri, a former European middleweight boxing champion who unsuccessfully challenged Jake La Motta for the world title, died Monday when he was struck by a train. He was 74. Mitri, one of Italy's most popular post-war athletes, was walking on the tracks just outside Rome and ignored the passenger train's alarm, police spokesman Gaudenzo Truzzi said. After his glory years, Mitri fell on hard times. He was living in poverty in a tiny apartment, and he had Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases. http://www.southam.com/montrealgazette/newsnow/cpfs/sports/sports.html *************** [log in to unmask]