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2 NYC triathletes die, organizers ponder changes

Last updated Monday, August 8, 2011 - 3:52pm

NEW YORK -- Two competitors died after experiencing problems during the swim portion of the Nautica New York City Triathlon, leading race organizers to consider asking athletes more questions about their training and experience.

The deaths were the second and third ones at the popular triathlon in the last three years.

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(DET. GREG SEMENDINGER/NYPD via ABC News/The Associated Press) This photo taken Sept. 11, 2001 by the New York City Police Department and obtained by ABC News under the Freedom of Information Act shows a World Trade Center tower burning after it was hit by a passenger jet in New York.

New aerial NYPD photos of 9/11 attack released

Colleen Long, Ula Ilnytzky The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, February 10, 2010 - 2:40pm

SLIDESHOW: See newly released aerial photos taken after the terror attacks on Sept. 11, 2001

NEW YORK -- Newly released aerial photos of the World Trade Center terror attack capture the towers' dramatic collapse, from just after the first fiery plane strike to the apocalyptic dust clouds that spread over lower Manhattan and its harbor.

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NYC skateboarding pioneer Andy Kessler dies at 48

Ula Ilnytzky The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, August 14, 2009 - 1:43am

NEW YORK -- Andy Kessler, a trailblazer during New York City's nascent 1970s skateboarding scene and a designer of skate parks who was admired by boarders on both coasts, died Monday. He was 48.
Kessler died after suffering a heart attack following an allergic reaction to a wasp sting, Moose Huerta, a close friend and fellow skateboarder, said Thursday.
He was dismantling old wood on a shack in Montauk, Long Island, when he was stung, said Tony Farmer, a skateboarding friend and West Coast native who now lives in Brooklyn.

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