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Journalist’s post-mortem places rumours of foul play to mattress
Grant Wahl, the US journalist who collapsed whereas overlaying Argentina’s penalty shootout victory over Netherlands, died of an aortic aneurysm in accordance with an post-mortem.
Wahl was in Qatar reporting on the World Cup independently, overlaying matches and likewise off-field points by means of his Substack web page.
His physique arrived house in New York Metropolis on Tuesday (AEDT) and was taken to the native health worker’s workplace.
On Wednesday afternoon (AEDT) Wahl’s spouse, Dr Celine Gounder, revealed on CBS Mornings that any strategies of foul play may very well be put to mattress.
“He had an autopsy done here in New York by the New York City medical examiner’s office, and it showed that he had an aortic aneurysm that ruptured,” she mentioned on the present.
“It’s just one of those things that had been likely brewing for years.”
Gounder additionally wrote on Wahl’s Substack web page that “there was nothing nefarious about his death.”
The information of Wahl’s dying was initially damaged by his brother, Eric, who posted an emotional video to Instagram alleging that the 48-year-old “had been killed” and that he was “healthy”. These claims have since been retracted.
