Boxing: Terry Spinks dies age 74
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Save The youngest Briton ever to win an Olympic boxing gold medal has died.
Terry Spinks took the flyweight title at the 1956 Games in Melbourne when he was 18.
Marital woes, drinking problems and underworld associations plagued him in later years.
In 2002, after much campaigning by friends, Spinks was
awarded the MBE that other Olympic champions of the day had received long before.
He died aged 74.