The spouse of Grant Wahl, the American journalist who died after collapsing in a World Cup press field, says there was nothing untoward in his dying.
Wahl, 48, had described feeling stress in his chest within the days earlier than Friday’s quarter-final between Argentina and the Netherlands.
Celine Gounder, Wahl’s spouse, mentioned a New York post-mortem found a bleed round his coronary heart.
“There was nothing nefarious about his dying,” she added.
“The chest stress he skilled shortly earlier than his dying might have represented the preliminary signs.
“No quantity of CPR or shocks would have saved him. His dying was unrelated to Covid. His dying was unrelated to vaccination standing.”
Gounder thanked the world of sport for the tributes to her late husband.
His dying prompted messages from varied main figures in American sports activities, together with a number of the United States group he had been protecting in Qatar.
“Whereas the world knew Grant as a fantastic journalist, we knew him as a person who approached the world with openness and love,” Gounder added.
“Grant was an extremely empathetic, devoted, and loving husband, brother, uncle, and son who was our best team-mate and fan. We are going to ceaselessly cherish the reward of his life; to share his firm was our best love and supply of pleasure.”
Earlier within the event Wahl said he was stopped from entering the United States’ group match towards Wales as a result of he was sporting a t-shirt in help of same-sex relationships, that are unlawful in Qatar.
He had additionally accused Qatari organisers of apathy and indifference over migrant employee deaths across the event. The rights and welfare of migrant employees in Qatar have been the main focus of worldwide criticism, with differing claims over the variety of deaths.
Wahl wrote within the earlier a part of final week that he had been to a hospital in Qatar and been informed it was seemingly he had bronchitis.
