American soccer journalist Grant Wahl, who collapsed and died while covering the World Cup match between Argentina and Netherlands in Qatar last weekend, died of a ruptured blood vessel, according to autopsy results.
The autopsy, conducted by the New York City Medical Examiner’s Office, shows that Wahl died from the rupture “of a slowly growing, undetected ascending aortic aneurysm with hemopericardium,” Wahl’s wife, Dr. Celine Gounder, wrote in a note on her husband’s website.
“The chest pressure he experienced shortly before his death may have represented the initial symptoms,” the page reads, adding that no amount of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) or shocks would have saved him….