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By Ben Efe<\/p>\n

Former Olympic 400m champion and renowned coach, Lee Evans is battling to stay alive as he is due to undergo surgery to remove a brain tumor in San Jose, USA.<\/p>\n

Mr. Evans who is one of the coaches working on the Cross Rivers State grassroots athletics development programme was on vacation in California when he took ill.<\/p>\n

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Lee Evans<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

His condition was considered serious as he did not get medical attention, because he was not on the American health insurance scheme.<\/p>\n

But coordinator of the Cross River athletics project, Bruce Ijirigho said yesterday that family and friends were rallying round Evans who was a former world record holder in the 400m.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe will be undergoing surgery on Thursday. We are hopeful that he will be be well and okay.\u201d said Dr. Ijirigho.<\/p>\n

The 63-year-old coach Evans who is also a social activist, first came to Nigeria in 1975 and was instrumental to the rise of some Nigeria greats in the past.<\/p>\n

He came back to Nigeria in 2009 on the bill of the Athletics Federation of Nigeria, but ended up in Cross River after the AFN failed to regularise his contract.<\/p>\n

Coach Evans\u2019 work in Calabar, has been bearing fruits and this was noticed during the last Schools sports festival, where Cross Rivers won most of the athletics medals.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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