{"comments":{"76488":{"pb_id":"4","pb_type":"members","likes":"0","parent_id":"0","pid":"76488","comment_id":"76488","member_id":"4","comment":"<p>Thanks for sharing.&nbsp; Here is another article on this.<\/p><br \/>\r\n<p>GERMAN 800M RUNNER HERMS FOUND DEADBy David Monti&copy; 2008 Race Results Weekly, all rights reservedRen&eacute;<br \/>\r\nHerms, one of Germany's most decorated 800m runners, was found dead<br \/>\r\nSaturday at his home, according to a report posted at the German<br \/>\r\nathletics federation website, Leichtathletik.de.&nbsp; He was 26 years old,<br \/>\r\nand the cause of his death was not immediately known.Herms<br \/>\r\nfirst made his presence felt at the 2001 European Junior Championships<br \/>\r\nin Grosseto, Italy, where he won the gold medal just four days after<br \/>\r\nturning 19.&nbsp; Two years later he won the European Under-23 title in<br \/>\r\nBydgoszcz, Poland.&nbsp; He also made his first appearance in the IAAF World<br \/>\r\nChampionships that year in Paris, but was eliminated in the semi-finals.After<br \/>\r\njoining the senior ranks, Herms won four European Cup medals for<br \/>\r\nGermany, two outdoors and two indoors, including the silver medal at<br \/>\r\n800m at the 2004 European Cup.&nbsp; He achieved a personal best time of<br \/>\r\n1:44.14 set in M&uuml;nich in 2004.&nbsp; Herms competed in the Athens Olympics,<br \/>\r\nmaking it to the second round before being eliminated.&nbsp; Herms<br \/>\r\nran for the LG Braunschweig club, and the club's chairman, Bernhard<br \/>\r\nBr&ouml;ger, sent an e-mail indicating that his athlete had suffered from a<br \/>\r\n\"heart muscle illness\" which may have contributed to his death.&nbsp; Herms<br \/>\r\nwas married; his body was discovered by his mother-in-law.ENDS<\/p>","date_added":"Sep 1st 2010, 11:55pm","nest":0,"liked":false,"member":{"wally_id":"31","email_settings":"127","email":"ross@teamxo.com","address":"ross","gender":"m","member_id":"4","member_name":"ross","avatar_location":"av-4.jpg","avatar_type":"upload","avatar":"\/\/www.runnerspace.com\/forum\/uploads\/av-4.jpg"},"can_delete":false,"item_id":4686,"item_type":"news","pb_image":"\/\/www.runnerspace.com\/forum\/uploads\/av-4.jpg","pb_title":"ross","pb_url":"profile.php?member_id=4","pb_url_dns":"https:\/\/ross.runnerspace.com\/","pb_wally_id":"31"}},"last_id":"76488","url":"comments.php?item_type=news&item_id=4686&item_url=profile.php?member_id=4820"}