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    Olympic Cycling Medalist Kelly Catlin Dead At 23

    She was found in her dorm at Stanford University last week. Her family says it was suicide. "She saw herself as a warrior and it was do or die," her sister, Christine Catlin, tells NPR.
    by Sasha Ingber Mar 11, 2019 3 minutes
    Kelly Catlin on her bike.

    Updated at 6:07 p.m. ET

    Olympic cycling medalist Kelly Catlin died in her dorm at Stanford University last Thursday, an abrupt end to the 23-year-old's accolade-filled life.

    Her family tells NPR that she took her own life.

    "Waves of despair come over us," her father, Mark Catlin, says. "She promised us she wasn't going to kill herself."

    Catlin was most known as being a member of the U.S. women's pursuit team that

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