But ALS is a disease without discrimination: The physicist Stephen Hawking and the guitarist Jason Becker suffer from it. Henry Wallace, a former United States vice president, died of it, as did the soccer manager Don Revie, the actor David Niven, the musician Hans Keller. And it carries Gehrig's name because the New York Yankee died of it in 1941. Borgonovo is on Italy's mind right now because he is one of an unnerving number of distinguished performers to be diagnosed with the fatal illness in what should be the prime of their early retirement. A prosecutor in Turin, Raffaele Guariniello, began to compile evidence of the abnormally high incidence of ALS in soccer when he investigated doping in Serie A clubs. He attributes motor neurone disease to the premature deaths of 51 former players and says neither he, nor a team of...
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