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Olympian Tori Bowie Tragedy: New Details Emerge
Tori Bowie's cause volition ne'er hide their last telephone call.
In a caller interrogation with NBC News, Kimberly Holland recalled however the jock had expressed her excitement implicit becoming a ma conscionable 2 weeks before her death.
Looking backmost astatine their call, Holland told the outlet Bowie, who was astir 8 months large astatine the time, had purchased babe apparel and noted she was "looking guardant to this caller section successful her life." As the rep enactment it, "I thought that conversation, overall, was a speech of caller beginnings."
Indeed, Holland said Bowie was "just truthful happy" during their talk. However, the cause told NBC News she had questioned whether the Olympian—who won 3 medals, including a gold, for the U.S. Team astatine the 2016 Rio Games—was taking attraction of herself, asking if she was eating capable and attending her appointments.
"I started to travel off, I think, a small preachy, due to the fact that she started to unopen maine down and she was like, 'Miss Kim, the babe is fine,'" Holland continued. "So that was my cue to permission it alone."
Holland said she offered to person Bowie enactment with her astatine her location successful Atlanta. However, she would aboriginal perceive the heartbreaking quality of the way star's death.
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"We're devastated to stock the precise bittersweet quality that Tori Bowie has passed away," a May 3 statement, posted by Holland's absorption company Icon Management, to Instagram read. "We've mislaid a client, beloved friend, girl and sister. Tori was a champion…a beacon of airy that shined truthful bright! We're genuinely heartbroken and our prayers are with the family, friends and everyone that loved her."
According to an autopsy report from Florida's Orange County Medical Examiner's bureau obtained by E! News, Bowie was recovered astatine location connected May 2 and died of complications of childbirth. She was 32 years old. The aesculapian examiner's bureau noted in another report that Bowie's stillborn babe miss died of "intrauterine fetal demise owed to maternal condition."
Amid the news, Holland reflected connected the parent Bowie was going to be.
"I deliberation that that would person been 1 of the astir luckiest babies ever," she told NBC News, "because she had truthful overmuch emotion to give."
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