Grant Wahl with a World Cup duplicate trophy, in recognition of his achievement masking 8 or extra FIFA World Cups, throughout a ceremony on the Main Media Centre on Nov. 29 in Doha, Qatar.

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Grant Wahl with a World Cup duplicate trophy, in recognition of his achievement masking 8 or extra FIFA World Cups, throughout a ceremony on the Main Media Centre on Nov. 29 in Doha, Qatar.

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An post-mortem has revealed American soccer sportswriter Grant Wahl died of an ascending aortic aneurysm.

His spouse, Céline Gounder, revealed the reason for loss of life throughout an look Wednesday on CBS Mornings.

His physique and belongings had been flown again to New York City on Monday, the place an post-mortem was carried out on the NYC health worker’s workplace.

In a statement, Gounder mentioned, “No amount of CPR or shocks would have saved him. His death was unrelated to COVID. His death was unrelated to vaccination status. There was nothing nefarious about his death.”

Wahl was masking Friday’s Argentina-Netherlands quarterfinal match on the World Cup in Doha, Qatar. The 48-year-old collapsed in the course of the sport on the press tribune inside Lusail Stadium. Paramedics rushed to carry out emergency care and after about half-hour, he was taken to a neighborhood hospital.

He had gotten sick in Qatar earlier than his loss of life. Last week he had written he’d visited a medical clinic twice and the employees believed he had bronchitis.

“My body finally broke down on me,” Wahl wrote. “Three weeks of little sleep, high stress and lots of work can do that to you … What had been a cold over the last 10 days turned into something more severe on the night of the USA-Netherlands game, and I could feel my upper chest take on a new level of pressure and discomfort.” He was prescribed antibiotics and mentioned they had been serving to.

His loss of life reverberated throughout the journalism community. He was remembered not solely as a reporter who spoke truth to power but additionally as a colleague who helped journalists — younger and outdated — with their craft. He was an enormous advocate for soccer (each males’s and girls’s) who cared passionately about human rights. He spent most of his profession with Sports Illustrated (24 years) and in 2020 branched out on his personal.

He appeared recurrently on CBS, CNN and on NPR.

His brother, Eric Wahl, informed NPR Grant had acquired loss of life threats at this World Cup as a result of he wore a rainbow shirt in help of homosexual rights (same-sex relationships are unlawful in Qatar) and in addition for Grant’s continued crucial reporting on FIFA and the way the Qataris had been operating the event.

Wahl is considered one of three journalists who has died whereas masking the World Cup because it started on November 20. The first was ITV sports activities director Roger Pearce, who “passed away suddenly” final month inside his lodge. The most up-to-date was a Qatari photojournalist with Al Kass TV, Khalid al-Misslam, who “died suddenly” this previous weekend.

FIFA acknowledged the deaths on Tuesday and arrange flower memorials, photos of the three and condolence books contained in the media heart of Lusail Stadium in the course of the Argentina-Croatia semifinal.