A former American swimming champion is dead in the U.S. Virgin Islands. This was reported by the local police, who say her boyfriend brought her to the hospital where she was pronounced: “dead on arrival.”
Jamie Cail, a former U.S. swimming star, died in the Virgin Islands last week.
“According to the United States Virgin Islands Police Department — Cail, who won a gold medal at the 1997 Pan Pacific Championships, was found unresponsive in St. John by her boyfriend on Feb. 21 just after midnight.
Police say the swimmer’s significant other had been out at a local bar but left to check in on her at their home — and discovered her on the floor,” TMZ Sports reported.
Virgin Islands police have opened a criminal investigation and are asking anyone with information to contact them.
Cail was one leg of the gold medal-winning U.S. 800 free relay team as a teenager in the 1997 Pan Pacific Championships. She won silver in the same event at the World Swimming Cup in Brazil the following year.
