the cause of death of journalist Grant Wahl in Qatar was determined - World Cup Qatar 2022

While the match between the Argentina team and the Netherlands was taking place in the Qatar 2022 World Cup, American sports journalist Grant Wahl, who worked for the ‘CBS’ network, passed away suddenly.

Despite the fact that medical personnel intervened for 30 minutes at the Lusail Iconic Stadium, they could not do anything to save his life. The condition to his health withering from him.

days before death the reporter was wearing a T-shirt with the LGTBI+ rainbow and, for this reason, he was detained by the Qatari authorities.

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Given this, his brother Eric Wahl accused the Qatari government of having assassinated the journalist. However, he retracted what he said and assured that Grant Wahl suffered a pulmonary embolism.

The reason for his death

His body was flown to New York City.where an autopsy was performed to determine the cause of his departure.

After the results were known, a homicide was ruled out. The football commentator died a natural death: a heart aneurysm, according to the New York Medical Examiner’s Office.

Grant died of a ruptured, slow-growing, undetected ascending aortic aneurysm with hemopericardium.wrote the journalist’s wife, Dr. Céline Gounder, on her partner’s website.

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He also added that “the chest pressure that he experienced shortly before his death could have represented the initial symptoms. Neither CPR nor shocks would have saved him. His death was not related to covid or his vaccination status, much less was there a criminal act in his death.”

The foot ball analyst worked for ‘Sports Illustrated’ from 1996 to 2021, where he became known covering football and college basketball games. Subsequently, Wahl created his own website, ‘Football with Grant Wahl’, along with a podcast with ‘Meadowlark Media’.

Then, in 2012, Wahl worked for ‘Fox Sports’ until 2019. Finally, he continued his career at the ‘CBS Sports’ network, where he started in 2021, as an analyst and editorial consultant.

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On his professional path he wrote two books: ‘Masters of Modern Soccer’, in 2018, and ‘The Beckham Experiment’, in 2019, after the renowned former soccer player David Beckham joined the LA Galaxy of Major League Soccer.

Both the wife, brother, relatives, friends and colleagues of the journalist recalled that Wahl “was a great human being, as well as admiring him as an amazing professional.”