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Albert Camus
Albert Camus, photograph by Henri Cartier-Bresson.
As a student, Albert Camus had a great enthusiasm for sports, particularly football (soccer), swimming, and boxing. His active participation in these sports continued until 1930, when he suffered the first of several severe attacks of tuberculosis, which forced him to end his sporting career.1