Grant Wahl: 'Nothing nefarious' in journalist's death during World Cup

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The woman of Grant Wahl, the American writer who died aft collapsing successful a World Cup property box, says determination was thing untoward successful his death.

Wahl, 48, had described feeling unit successful his thorax successful the days earlier Friday's quarter-final betwixt Argentina and the Netherlands.

Celine Gounder, Wahl's wife, said a New York autopsy discovered a bleed astir his heart.

"There was thing nefarious astir his death," she added.

"The thorax unit helium experienced soon earlier his decease whitethorn person represented the archetypal symptoms.

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"No magnitude of CPR oregon shocks would person saved him. His decease was unrelated to Covid. His decease was unrelated to vaccination status."

Gounder thanked the satellite of athletics for the tributes to her precocious husband.

His decease prompted messages from assorted starring figures successful American sports, including immoderate of the United States squad helium had been covering successful Qatar.

"While the satellite knew Grant arsenic a large journalist, we knew him arsenic a antheral who approached the satellite with openness and love," Gounder added.

"Grant was an incredibly empathetic, dedicated, and loving husband, brother, uncle, and lad who was our top team-mate and fan. We volition everlastingly cherish the acquisition of his life; to stock his institution was our top emotion and root of joy."

Earlier successful the tourney Wahl said helium was stopped from entering the United States' radical match against Wales due to the fact that helium was wearing a t-shirt successful enactment of same-sex relationships, which are amerciable successful Qatar.

He had besides accused Qatari organisers of apathy and indifference implicit migrant idiosyncratic deaths astir the tournament. The rights and payment of migrant workers successful Qatar person been the absorption of planetary criticism, with differing claims implicit the fig of deaths.

Wahl wrote successful the earlier portion of past week that helium had been to a infirmary successful Qatar and been told it was apt helium had bronchitis.