Olympic Champ Dies

Rod Milburn, 110-meter hurdles gold medalist in the 1972 Olympics, was found dead in a rail car full of a bleach solution at the paper plant where he worked, police said Wednesday.

There was no indication of how Milburn, 47, wound up in the car at the Georgia Pacific plant near Baton Rouge. Authorities said they did not suspect foul play.

Milburn had been assigned to unload a rail car containing liquid sodium chlorate, a chemical used in the bleaching process of paper making, said Patty Prats-Swanson, a spokeswoman for Georgia Pacific.