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The Sun’s long-time athletics correspondent Vikki Orvice, who blazed a trail for women in sport during a 24-year career in national newspapers, has died aged 56. Orvice, who was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2007, had continued to work for the newspaper until the end of last year despite being told it was incurable.
The news was announced by her husband Ian Ridley, who wrote: “My beloved, bright, brilliant wife Vikki Orvice passed away at 5am, able to defy the cancer no longer. I am bereft, empty, but grateful for her life and her love. Those who feel the breath of sadness, sit down next to me.”
Written by Sean Ingle
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2019/feb/06/vikki-orvice-the-sun-trailblazer-women-sport-dies-aged-55 under the title “Vikki Orvice, journalist and trailblazer for women in sport, dies aged 56”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.
