Colette Besson, who has died aged 59, became one of France's sporting heroines after she won the 400 metres at the Mexico Olympics in 1968. A 22-year-old PE teacher from Bordeaux, she was virtually ...

PARIS -- Colette Besson, a physical education teacher who scored a big upset to win the 400-meter gold medal at the 1968 Olympics, died Tuesday of cancer. She was 59. Her death was announced by the ...

Colette Besson, a physical education teacher who scored an upset to win the 400-meter gold medal for France at the 1968 Olympics, died Tuesday in La Rochelle, France, of cancer. She was 59. Besson, ...

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