{"id":7187,"date":"2025-11-05T02:59:03","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T02:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/?p=7187"},"modified":"2025-11-05T02:59:03","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T02:59:03","slug":"the-worlds-oldest-olympic-champion-has-died-at-the-age-of-101","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/?p=7187","title":{"rendered":"The world&#8217;s oldest Olympic champion has died at the age of 101"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paris Olympic torchbearer Charles Coste, the world&#8217;s oldest Olympic champion, died on October 30 at the age of 101, France 24 television reported on November 2. French Minister of Sport, Youth and community life Giovanni Ferrari lamented on social media that he was &#8220;An example of perseverance&#8221; and praised his &#8220;Enormous sporting legacy&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7188 aligncenter\" title=\"a197e96c38206391e58a0a357bf6354f\" src=\"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/a197e96c38206391e58a0a357bf6354f.jpg\" alt=\"a197e96c38206391e58a0a357bf6354f\" width=\"699\" height=\"520\" srcset=\"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/a197e96c38206391e58a0a357bf6354f.jpg 699w, http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/a197e96c38206391e58a0a357bf6354f-300x223.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 699px) 100vw, 699px\" \/><br \/>\nKoster 2024 the Torch in a wheelchair during the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics. Visual China<\/p>\n<p>Koster, who was born in the south of France in 1924, won gold in the track cycling team chase with his team-mates at the 1948 London Olympics, the report said. He then moved on to road racing, winning the 1949 Grand Prix, the 1953 Paris-limoges and the 1954 Tour de Monaco, before retiring in 1959.<\/p>\n<p>The 100-year-old Koster, in a wheelchair, was the penultimate torchbearer to carry the torch in the rain to judo 2024 and track star Peyrek at the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics, the scene touched countless viewers. &#8220;His passion and kindness for sport is unforgettable,&#8221; said Tony Estange, president of the Paris Organising Committee<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paris Olympic torchbearer Charles Coste, the world&#8217;s oldest Olympic champion, died on October 30 at the age of 101, France 24 television reported on November 2. French Minister of Sport,&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7188,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[260,267,261],"tags":[3689,2411,3690,3688],"views":48,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7187"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7187"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7189,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7187\/revisions\/7189"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/forefrontnews.cn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}