Revered soccer journalist Grant Wahl suddenly died last week while covering the FIFA World Cup due to a rupture in his aorta, his family said in a statement.
The family said Wahl's cause of death was determined through an autopsy performed by the New York City Medical Examiner's Office after his body was returned to the U.S. on Monday.
Wahl, 49, was pronounced dead at a hospital after collapsing while covering the final moments of the World Cup quarterfinal match between Argentina and the Netherlands on Dec. 9.Celine Gounder, Wahl's wife and a physician, said he had an undetected and slowly growing expansion and weakening of his ascending aorta that had catastrophically ruptured, which is known as an aneurysm.
"The chest pressure he experienced shortly before his death may have represented the initial symptoms. No amount of CPR or shocks would have saved him," Gounder said. "While the world knew Grant as a great journalist, we knew him as a man who approached the world with openness and love. Grant was an incredibly empathetic, dedicated, and loving husband, brother, uncle, and son who was our greatest teammate and fan," she added.
"His death was unrelated to COVID. His death was unrelated to vaccination status. There was nothing nefarious about his death."
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