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Today we believe that the oldest living Romanian Olympian, Francisc Horvath, is celebrating his 98th birthday.

Today we have a new set of Olympic milestone birthdays, so once again we are going to cover both instead of choosing between them!

Oldest Olympians is saddened to learn that Hans Andersson-Tvilling, born July 15, 1928, died earlier this month at the age of 98.

Last month, Oldest Olympians began covering those Olympians for whom we last had evidence of being alive from 2015 and will remove from our tables if we cannot find any additional evidence of their being alive.

Oldest Olympians is saddened to learn that Italian sport shooter Ennio Mattarelli, born August 5, 1928, died August 23 at the age of 98.

Today we have the same two milestone birthdays among the Oldest Olympians as last two years so, as is our tradition, we are combining them into a single blog post rather than choosing between them!

Today we have two milestone birthdays to celebrate so, as always, we are going to cover them both in a single blog post!

Late last year and early this year, Oldest Olympians spent three blog entries covering those Olympians for whom we last had evidence of being alive from 2014 and would remove from our tables if we could not find any additional evidence of their being aliv…

Today on Oldest Olympians we have the same two milestone birthdays to celebrate as last year, so we will once again cover them both in a blog entry!

Today on Oldest Olympians, we are finalizing our look into new Olympic missing links.

Oldest Olympians is saddened to learn that Egyptian rower Wagih El-Attar, born February 22, 1928, died July 29 at the age of 98.

Between today and tomorrow, Oldest Olympians has four milestone birthdays that we want to share and celebrate.

Due to travel-related issues, we were unable to post Oldest Olympians yesterday, so today we are going to make up for that with two updates!

Today on Oldest Olympians we have the same two milestone birthdays to celebrate as last year so, as usual, we are covering them both in a blog entry!