Witness Recounts Frantic Bid to Save Sports Writer Grant Wahl After Shock World Cup Collapse

 

 "Glancy said he and others in the press box were distressed by the lack of a defibrillator nearby, questioning how a “state-of-the-art” stadium could be unprepared for the medical emergency.

Wahl’s exact cause of death has not yet been determined. His brother, Eric Wahl, said in an emotional Instagram video that he believed foul play was involved.

Wahl ran afoul of local Qatari authorities in late November, when he wore a rainbow T-shirt to the Ahmed bin Ali Stadium in defiance of a crackdown on expressions of support for the LGBTQ+ community. He took to Twitter at the time to say he’d been temporarily detained by security after refusing to remove the T-shirt.

And shortly before his death, he publicly criticized Qatari authorities over the deaths of migrant workers involved in projects for the soccer tournament."

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