RIP Grant Wahl

[Urethra Franklin]

This is truly shocking.

Grant Wahl has died in Qatar after collapsing during the Argentina/Netherlands match. His brother alleges foul play.

www.latimes.com/sports/soccer/story/2022-12-09/grant-wahl-longtime-soccer-writer-dies-world-cup?_amp=true

I met him a long time ago time ago at a work event in the very early days of my career. He asked me about what I wanted to do in the business and why I wanted to do it. He immediately gave me his email address and told me to get into contact with him if I ever had any questions.

I never did, but if you’re seeing the outpouring of grief and all the stories of how good a dude he was, I can attest to those even in our briefest of meetings.

RIP

[Cyno]

www.espn.com/soccer/fifa-world-cup/story/4831879/soccer-journalist-grant-wahl-died-of-undetected-aortic-aneurysm-wife

Cause of death looks to be an aortic aneurysm. This probably won't stop the conspiracy theories of foul play, but it's almost certainly incredibly shitty timing than anything nefarious.

[cornettesracket]

Dec 14, 2022 18:50:00 GMT -5 Cyno said:

www.espn.com/soccer/fifa-world-cup/story/4831879/soccer-journalist-grant-wahl-died-of-undetected-aortic-aneurysm-wife

Cause of death looks to be an aortic aneurysm. This probably won't stop the conspiracy theories of foul play, but it's almost certainly incredibly shitty timing than anything nefarious.

Nothing will stop the conspiracy theorists doing their own “research”. Am I right in saying he said in his website that he felt unwell and went to get checked out and the diagnosis was bronchitis or something to that effect ? So close to Christmas(not that there’s a good time) but yeah awful awful news.

[Cyno]

Dec 14, 2022 19:20:37 GMT -5 cornettesracket said:

Dec 14, 2022 18:50:00 GMT -5 Cyno said:

www.espn.com/soccer/fifa-world-cup/story/4831879/soccer-journalist-grant-wahl-died-of-undetected-aortic-aneurysm-wife

Cause of death looks to be an aortic aneurysm. This probably won't stop the conspiracy theories of foul play, but it's almost certainly incredibly shitty timing than anything nefarious.

Nothing will stop the conspiracy theorists doing their own “research”. Am I right in saying he said in his website that he felt unwell and went to get checked out and the diagnosis was bronchitis or something to that effect ? So close to Christmas(not that there’s a good time) but yeah awful awful news.

Yeah, he was feeling crappy most of the time he was there. I think he also had Long COVID last year or in 2020. That probably didn't do his circulatory system any favors even after he finally recovered.

If he was really lucky and knew what some of the early warning signs were, he would've gotten it caught by a specialist and gotten emergency surgery to fix it before it could rupture. Unfortunately, he thought it was just a combination of bronchitis and the very stressful, exhausting working conditions of a sports journalist at the World Cup.

[XIII]

People want to believe that there’s some giant conspiracy out there because then there is some element of control to the universe but the reality is that sometimes shit just happens. It’s definitely not fair to his family to put these half-baked conspiracy theories out there.

[coloetho12]

this was absolutely a poisoning. he was made an example of. plus it was his own brother who started the conspiracy cos he said how healthy he was and that he had already visited the hospital.