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The International OlympicCommittee (IOC、said on February 9 it would award its
highest honour toArthurAshe， the tennis star and human rights fighter who died on February 6 ofAIDS. He was 49.The award， called the Olympic Order， is awarded to sportsmen and others for service to the Olympics and its principleD、Ashe never participated in the Olympics， but IOC、president JuanAntonio Samaranch said： “I think he was really a thorough Olympian.”
Ashe is the first black man to win Wimbledon and the only black to win the
Australian US open titles.LastApril 8， he announced he hadAIDS， which he got from a blood transfusion during a heart operation in 1983.Ashe often worked for racial equality in and out of sports. He said the happiest moment of his life was not winning Wimbledon， but when Nelson Mandela—SouthAfrica‘s antiapartheid (反種族隔離的) leader—was freed from jail in 1990.A、quote fromAshe： “I have good days and bad days. My ratio of good days to bad days is about six to one.”