The conspiracy theories can now be put to rest when it comes to how Grant Wahl passed away while in Qater covering the World Cup.
During a game between Argentina and the Netherlands, Wahl reportedly fell back in his seat as medical personnel rushed to aid him. At some point during his transport to the hospital, he either died in the ambulance or at the hospital. It was shocking news that gripped the sports community and had his brother thinking someone had killed him.
Wahl was just 48 years old.
However, on Wednesday, Wahl’s wife, Celine Gounder, revealed his cause of death was an undetected ascending aortic aneurysm.
“An autopsy was performed by the New York City Medical Examiner’s Office. Grant died from the rupture of a slowly growing, undetected ascending aortic aneurysm with hemopericardium. 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. His death was unrelated to COVID. His death was unrelated to vaccination status. There was nothing nefarious about his death.”
“I kept on asking: did he have a pulse?” said Gounder. “If he had a pulse when he left the stadium that would have been a good sign, but no one would answer the question. And so to me – I was scared.”
“It’s just one of these things that had been likely brewing for years, and for whatever reason it happened at this point in time,” Gounder added.
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Wahl had been “laughing at a joke we saw on Twitter” just minutes before reportedly collapsing, journalist Rafael Cores, who was sitting next to Wahl at the game, said. During a podcast, Wahl stated himself that he had a case of bronchitis and that his cough felt like a ‘death rattle.’
“My body finally broke down on me. Three weeks of little sleep, high stress and lots of work can do that to you,” Wahl wrote on Dec. 5. “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.”
“I went into the medical clinic at the main media center today, and they said I probably have bronchitis. They gave me a course of antibiotics and some heavy-duty cough syrup, and I’m already feeling a bit better just a few hours later. But still: No bueno,” he wrote.
Grant Wahl’s brother, Eric, has since come out and stated that his emotional testimony was wrong and apologized to everybody that he may have affected with his statement. Wahl had been kicked out of the stadium weeks ago because he was wearing a shirt with a rainbow on it.
“As soon as I heard about his death, the first thing I thought was that he had been murdered,” Eric Wahl said. “I based it on things G said the last two times I talked to him. But obviously I don’t know anything for sure.”
