{"id":14357,"date":"2017-08-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-08-06T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/uncategorized\/olympic-great-betty-cuthbert-dies\/"},"modified":"2017-08-06T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-08-06T00:00:00","slug":"olympic-great-betty-cuthbert-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.fiveaa.com.au\/news\/olympic-great-betty-cuthbert-dies\/","title":{"rendered":"Olympic Great Betty Cuthbert Dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Australian sprinting legend Betty Cuthbert has died.<\/h3>\n<p>Cuthbert was a four-time Olympic gold medallist, winning three at the 1956 Melbourne games in the 100m, 200m and 4x100m relay events.<\/p>\n<p>Cuthbert, who also won gold in the 400m eight years later at the Tokyo Olympics, has died age 79 after a long battle with multiple sclerosis.<\/p>\n\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">An Australian athletics legend has died. 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Cuthbert was a four-time Olympic gold medallist, winning three at the 1956 Melbourne games in the 100m, 200m and 4x100m relay events. Cuthbert, who also won gold in the 400m eight years later at the Tokyo Olympics, has died age 79 after a long battle with multiple sclerosis. 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