Soccer journalist Grant Wahl dies in Qatar while covering his 8th Men's World Cup
, explaining that Wahl was in the press box during the final minutes of the soccer match when he went into "acute distress." Scanlan said, “He wasn’t sleeping well, and I asked him if he tried melatonin or anything like that. He said, ‘I just need to like relax for a bit.’”
In his recent articles and podcasts covering the World Cup, Wahl discussed some of his health struggles during a time when his work only allowed him to get around five hours of sleep a night. At first, he wrote that he thought he just had a cold, but it “turned into something more severe” around December 3. He tested negative for COVID-19, but wrote that he “could feel my upper chest take on a new level of pressure and discomfort.
Earlier in the international soccer competition, Wahl had attracted headlines for his decision to wear a rainbow t-shirt supporting LGBTQ+ rights to the Wales v. United States game, as homosexuality is criminalized in Qatar. Stadium security had been stopping and questioning fans wearing rainbows or carrying flags, and Wahlthat he was also detained by Ahmad bin Ali Stadium's guards for 25 minutes.
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