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Grant Wahl's woman is honoring his legacy.
Days aft her hubby passed away portion covering the World Cup successful Qatar, Dr. Celine Gounder penned a connection to supporters connected Grant's Substack.
"I privation to explicit our deepest gratitude for the outpouring of support, love, and sympathy from astir the world," she wrote connected Dec. 14. "This continues to beryllium a precise hard and achy clip arsenic we grieve a beloved husband, brother, and friend. It is immoderate comfortableness to cognize that truthful galore radical Grant reached—countless colleagues, readers, athletes, coaches, friends, and fans—are grieving alongside us."
Celine went connected to stock Grant's origin of death. "An autopsy was performed by the New York City Medical Examiner's Office, she continued. "Grant died from the rupture of a dilatory growing, undetected ascending aortic aneurysm with hemopericardium. The thorax unit helium experienced soon earlier his decease whitethorn person represented the archetypal symptoms. No magnitude of CPR oregon shocks would person saved him. His decease was unrelated to COVID. His decease was unrelated to vaccination status. There was thing nefarious astir his death."
Celine besides described that getting her husband's assemblage backmost to the U.S. was a coordinated effort "that required coordination from aggregate agencies domestically and internationally."
"Our sincere gratitude to everyone progressive successful repatriating Grant," she continued. "In peculiar the White House, the U.S. Department of State, FIFA, U.S. Soccer and American Airlines."
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And she besides gave fans who lone knew Grant arsenic a respected sports writer a glimpse into who helium was when helium wasn't covering shot matches.
"Grant was an incredibly empathetic, dedicated, and loving husband, brother, uncle, and lad who was our top teammate and fan," she wrote.
We volition everlastingly cherish the acquisition of his life; to stock his institution was our top emotion and root of joy. Grant curated friends from each cultures and walks of life, for whom helium was a generous listener, an enthusiast, a champion of others."
"To cognize Grant was to cognize a existent renaissance man; helium was endlessly funny astir the world, and a person of literature, art, music, food, and wine," she added. "He was arsenic successful his constituent cooking a quiescent dinner, walking his beloved Zizou and Coco done Manhattan, gathering friends for a raucous meal party, and traipsing crossed Moldova chasing a story."
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