IOC Awards Ashe Its Highest Honor
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The International Olympic Committee said Tuesday it will award its highest honor to Arthur Ashe, the tennis star and human rights advocate who died last Saturday of AIDS complications.
Ashe, the first African-American man to win a Grand Slam event and a spokesman for many social causes, never participated in the Olympics. But Juan Antonio Samaranch, IOC president, said Ashe epitomized what the Olympic Order was meant to honor.
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