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Monday, July 8, 2019
On the afternoon of July 8, a tragedy occurred in the world of sports: the heart of the founder of the Ukrainian MMA promotion stopped. The founder of the professional League of Mixed Martial Arts of Ukraine, Gennady Murashkovsky, passed away. The famous athlete and president of MMA PRO Ukraine died at the age of 43. This was reported on the organization's official Facebook page. “Today, July 8 at 14.30, the founder of...
Monday, July 8, 2019
A 20-year-old Russian athlete died tragically in Poland. Ekaterina Koroleva, a member of the Russian beach handball team, also died. This was reported on Monday, July 8, on the website of the Russian Handball Federation (FHR). The tragedy occurred after the end of the European Championship, which took place from July 2 to 7 in Stare Jablonki, Poland. The 20-year-old Queen drowned in a pond near the playing courts. Finding out...
Friday, June 14, 2019
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Monday, January 21, 2019
One of the best basketball players in Ukraine, Alexander Okunsky, has died. The legendary athlete passed away at the age of 47. The head coach of the Ukrainian women's basketball team, Vladimir Kholopov, announced this on his Facebook page. “Today my close friend, godfather and just a good person Sasha Okunsky passed away! May the Earth rest in peace!” he wrote. ...
Thursday, December 6, 2018
Details of the death of a young Russian football player have emerged. The investigation was able to find out that on November 30, FC Lokomotiv player Alexey Lomakin went to the football club’s medical center for rehabilitation, after which he met with his friend. After spending some time with him, the football player returned to the medical center, where he stayed overnight. The next day Lomakin again met with an acquaintance and went to...
Tuesday, December 4, 2018
The world boxing champion died at 47. The exact cause of death is not known, all that is known is that the former athlete died due to a short and serious illness. Markus Bayer died on December 3 in a Berlin hospital. “Bayer was a great man. The news of his death was a blow,” admits the German’s former coach Ulli Wegner. Bayer has competed as a professional boxer since 1996...
Monday, October 22, 2018
The Olympic champion who competed for the Russian national team has died. The Olympic champion in bullet shooting as part of the Russian national team, Boris Kokorev, died at the age of 60. This was reported on the website of the Russian Shooting Union. “Boris Borisovich was not only an outstanding athlete, an Honored Master of Sports, but also a sympathetic, kind person. He was well respected in the shooting community. His achievements and...
Wednesday, October 3, 2018
Surfer Fabrizio Stabile died at the age of 29 after an amoeba ate his brain. The young man's health deteriorated sharply. When he got to the hospital, doctors noted all the signs of a stroke. Stabile suffered seizures, paralysis and incoherent speech. The surfer could not be saved. But after an autopsy, doctors discovered the amoeba Naegleria in the man’s brain...
Tuesday, September 18, 2018
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Tuesday, September 4, 2018
Famous skier died during training Norwegian skier Ida Eide died during training in Ullensaker (Esheim). This was reported by the NRK TV channel. The 30-year-old athlete was found unconscious by passers-by outside the ski slope. Eide was rushed to Ullevål Hospital, where doctors pronounced her dead. “Her family is grateful for the support provided in such a difficult situation...
Wednesday, August 8, 2018
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Sunday, July 29, 2018
A deadly tragedy occurred on the Kiev Sea. The Briton, who was 65 years old, had recently lived in Kyiv, was an experienced athlete. The yachts had just reached the reservoir and were awaiting the start of the race. The man fell on board. It is not yet known whether he slipped or became ill. Colleagues immediately began performing resuscitation efforts, and first...
Sunday, July 29, 2018
Olympic champion died in Norway Former Norwegian skier Vibeke Skofterud was found dead on the shore of an island in southern Norway. “The deceased was reported missing on the night from Saturday to Sunday at 1:00. She was found dead on the island of St Helena in Hovekilen at 11:30am today. A hydro scooter was found nearby, everything indicates that she...
Friday, July 27, 2018
On the night of July 27, a famous Ukrainian athlete died. At the age of 63, the heart of the best goalkeeper in the history of Ukrainian hockey, ex-player of the Ukrainian national team and famous coach Yuri Aleksandrovich Shundrov, stopped beating. Yuri Shundrov was born on June 6, 1956 in Penza, Russia, where he began his sports career. But it was in Kyiv that Shundrov achieved...
Monday, July 23, 2018
Young goalkeeper brutally murdered in Argentina On July 22, 25-year-old goalkeeper Facundo Espindola was stabbed to death during a street brawl. Until 2016, the footballer played for the Almagro club, which plays in the second division of the Argentine championship. According to the preliminary version, Espindola was walking with friends at night, insults were made at him from a passing car, a fight broke out, ...
09/08/2010
The death of young athletes in competitions is becoming a sign of the times. It turns out that excellent sports training does not guarantee that a person is 100 percent healthy. Most often, hockey and football players are let down by their hearts. Online812 has collected sad statistics of deaths over the past 50 years.
ABOUT Olympic Games in Innsbruck 1964 years were overshadowed by two deaths at once. Shortly before the opening of the Winter Games, Australian alpine skier Ross Milne crashed into a tree and died, and British luger Kazimirtz Kai-Skrzepski crashed during training after the start of the competition.
IN 1978 During the USSR championship race last year, cyclist Grigory Radchenko became ill from the heat. The young man lost consciousness and died in the ambulance.
IN 1979 Judoist Sergei Lebedev died in hospital after a severe spinal injury received during a bout for the RSFSR Championship.
IN 1982 year, during an important fight for the world boxing title with the American Ray Mancini, the Korean athlete Duk Koo Kim suffered a cerebral hemorrhage from powerful blows to the head and died five days later.
Another boxer, Frenchman David Thio, fell into a coma and died that same evening from a blow to the jaw during a fight with Terence Alli in 1989 year.
IN 1995 In 2009, Italian cyclist Fabio Cazzartelli fell at a stage of the Tour de France, hit his head on the asphalt and died.
In the same year, 28-year-old pair skater Sergei Grinkov died of a heart attack at the training rink of the Olympic center in Lake Placid, America.
IN 1996 Another cyclist died this year. Spaniard Manuel Sanroma died after falling during a stage race in Catalonia.
IN 2000 year, American boxer Robert Benson lost consciousness after a fight with Ugandan Steve Dots and died after five days in a coma.
IN 2001 This year we lost 32-year-old Russian hockey player Vyacheslav Bezukladnikov. The athlete lost consciousness during a cross-country race at the pre-season training camp of the Togliatti Lada team in Bulgaria. Official diagnosis: liver cirrhosis, renal failure.
In the same year, after a collision with an Anzhi football player, CSKA goalkeeper Sergei Perkhun died from a traumatic brain injury.
To the list of deaths 2001 The year also includes Indonesian boxer Donny Maramis, who died in hospital after being hit hard by opponent Stanley Katalo.
IN 2002 Another Asian boxer died this year - Manuel Sayas from the Philippines. He also missed a strong blow, was deeply knocked out and died without regaining consciousness.
IN 2003 In 2009, Kazakh cyclist Andrei Kivilev received a severe head injury after falling on the Paris-Nice race course and died in hospital.
That same year, during a match with the Colombian team, Cameroonian footballer Mark Vivien Foe died of a heart attack, and American boxer Brad Rown died of cardiac arrest during the fight.
2004 The year was perhaps the most difficult for losses in world sports. During the year the following died:
Italian motorcycle racer Alessio Perilli, who took part in competitions for the European Championship
Hungarian football player Miklos Fehér felt unwell during a Portuguese football championship match and collapsed straight onto the lawn. The young man's heart stopped before he was taken to the hospital
During a Swedish championship match, 23-year-old Latvian basketball player Raimonds Jumikis died due to heart problems.
During training at a training camp in Crimea, 17-year-old Arsenal Kyiv footballer Andrei Pavitsky died of a heart attack.
On June 3, 26-year-old football player of the Hungarian third division club Uraiufalu Istvan Szabo died after training.
On June 10, the heart of 46-year-old Torpedo Zhodino coach Yakov Shapiro could not stand it. During the final match of the Belarusian football championship, his team snatched victory in the last minute of the game. The joyful coach ran onto the field and immediately suffered a heart attack.
34-year-old Lithuanian basketball player Tauras Stumbris died of a heart attack during a match between the Zalgiris and Atletas teams.
30-year-old Brazilian football player Serginho died of a heart attack during the national championship game
31-year-old forward of the Latvian hockey club Sergei Zholtok died of heart failure in Kyiv in the locker room.
IN 2005 In 2009, Latvian motorcyclist Ugis Metra died, suffering fatal injuries during a cross-country competition. The Spanish cyclist and Alessio Galetti did not reach the finish line of the Asturias race. He also died of a heart attack.
In the same year, Thai boxer Chatchai Phaisitong died from a blow from Russian Alexei Berarut, and Mexican boxer Martin Sanchez died after a knockout in a fight with Russian Rustam Nugaev.
20-year-old two-time world champion in synchronized swimming Olga Larkina died in a Moscow hospital from a pulmonary aortic aneurysm.
IN 2006 In 2009, Korean rider Kim Jung Chil died during a show jumping competition: his horse fell and crushed the rider. Around the same time, Montenegrin basketball player Petar Vukasojevic died on the bench during a national championship match a minute after leaving the game.
IN 2007 Spanish Sevilla footballer Antonio Puerta lost consciousness during a match and died of cardiac arrest two days later. At the same time, the Ecuadorian football team “Chimborazo” lost a player. The athlete died after the match in which he scored the winning goal.
Former Krylya Sovetov Samara forward Chaswe Nsofwa from Zambia died from cardiac arrest during a training session of the Israeli team Hapoel.
IN 2008 19-year-old midfielder of the youth team of Saturn near Moscow, Kirill Spassky, died of acute heart failure.
On June 1, Rustem Bulatov, an ex-football player of Rubin Kazan, CSKA, Tom and Anzhi, died suddenly during one of the games. In recent years, he worked at the Rubin Sports and Youth Sports School as a teacher trainer and played for one of the Kazan teams for the championship of the Republic of Tatarstan.
On June 11, one of the oldest Russian athletes, 66-year-old Evgeny Krotov, died. He, like 27 other athletes, took part in a marathon swim along the Amur River with a length of 672 kilometers. The swim was dedicated to the 150th anniversary of the return of the Amur region to Russia. Despite his advanced age, Evgeny Krotov walked more than 4,000 km, and died 200 km before the finish line after a blood clot broke off and entered his heart along with the blood.
That same summer, during a training cross-country, 21-year-old forward of the Lynx hockey team Igor Antosik became ill. Two days later, without regaining consciousness, he died in the hospital.
In the same year, two more young football players died. They were 17-year-old Bulgarian Stanislav Nikolov (heart attack) and player of the German lower division team Mainz Ditib Ufuk Akkaynak. The German died of a heart attack after scoring a goal against his opponents.
On October 13, the life of 19-year-old player of the Omsk hockey team “Avangard” Alexei Cherepanov was cut short. He lost consciousness during a match against Chekhov's Vityaz. After a collision with a player from his own team, Olympic champion Jaromir Jagr, Alexey was sent to the bench, where he suddenly lost consciousness. Already in the hospital, he died right in the intensive care unit from cardiac arrest.
In November, at the Kemerovo open championship in kudo (oriental martial arts), a 16-year-old athlete from Novosibirsk, Artem Korotkov, died. After a fight with a Kemerovo athlete, who was stopped by the referee after several strong blows, Artem began to feel ill. The young man took a couple of steps and fell. Before the ambulance arrived, the competition doctor and coach tried to help him. However, resuscitation did not save his life. A forensic medical examination showed that death was caused by a closed chest injury in the form of a heart contusion, complicated by the development of acute cardiovascular failure
At the Vancouver Olympics 2010 year, a Georgian luger, 21-year-old Nodar Kumaritashvili, died. During practice runs on the track, he lost control of his sled and went off the track, crashing into a pole.
On August 7, 62-year-old Russian athlete Vladimir Ladynezhsky died from overheating at the World Sports Sauna Championship. .
Their deaths became a tragedy for Soviet, Russian and world sports
It is not uncommon for boxers to receive life-threatening injuries during a fight. Race car drivers crash to death at high speeds, like the Brazilian Ayrton Senna. Football goalkeeper of Moscow CSKA is Ukrainian Sergey Perkhun in a Russian championship match he collided with an opposing forward, receiving fatal head injuries.
As sad as all these tragic incidents are, they are partly predictable. For boxing and auto racing, new rules and safety standards are written in blood. It’s much worse when an athlete’s life ends literally out of the blue, so that it’s not immediately clear what’s going on. When the engine of his body stops - the heart.
Victor Blinov
Soviet hockey player, 1968 Olympic champion, world champion. A student of Omsk hockey. By confession Vyacheslav Starshinov, there were simply no equals to Blinov in the USSR in terms of throwing power. At the same time, he was reliable in defense and had good attacking potential.
According to a famous trainer Nikolai Karpov, Victor had problems with alcohol, which he had been drinking since he was 15 years old. Once, as it turned out later, this led to a heart attack, but they did not call an ambulance. And at the club, so as not to be kicked out of the team, God forbid, Blinov did not say anything. Sooner or later, this would have happened anyway. He became ill during training on July 9, 1968, the hockey player’s heart stopped, and they could not save Viktor Blinov.
A sports and concert complex in his homeland in Omsk, which was the home arena of Avangard for 20 years (1987-2007), was named after Viktor Blinov. In 2002, a stele was erected near the stadium in honor of the hockey player.
A tournament in memory of Viktor Blinov is also held annually; in 2015, the competition celebrated its 30th anniversary.
Reggie Lewis
Lewis is probably the most famous basketball player to ever die during a game or practice. He played in the National Basketball Association for the Boston Celtics.
The player died on July 27, 1993, aged 27, during pre-season training. The diagnosis is myocardial infarction. Unlike most other deaths of athletes due to heart problems, Lewis's had been diagnosed with them earlier, including during the last months before the tragedy. There were rumors that the basketball player had problems with drugs, in particular with cocaine. But post-mortem tests did not confirm this. In any case, they were not the direct cause of death.
Marc-Vivienne Foe
The death of the Cameroonian defender from a heart attack during the Confederations Cup in 2003 was truly shocking for the entire football community. Everyone who knew Marc-Vivien Foe unanimously stated that he was a vegetarian and did not drink alcohol at all.
All the more strange is what happened in the semi-finals of the tournament. In the 71st minute of the match, Foe fell to the ground and lost consciousness. Doctors performed artificial respiration, trying to start his heart, but all in vain. The footballer died half an hour later due to hypertrophic cardiomyopathy.
Before the final match against France, the Cameroonians brought Foe's portrait onto the field and made three farewell circles with it after the game. Marc-Vivien Foe was posthumously awarded the silver medal of the Confederations Cup. The clubs in which the Cameroonian played, namely Manchester City, as well as Lens and Lyon, permanently removed the number under which he played in their squads from circulation.
Antonio Puerta
The 22-year-old defender of the Spanish Sevilla felt unwell during the first round match against Getafe on August 25, 2007. He fell on the lawn, the field players and the goalkeeper ran up to him, and a medical team arrived and gave him first aid right on the lawn.
Puerta even made it to the locker room himself, where he felt sick again. He was taken to the hospital, where doctors fought for his life for three days, but were unable to save him. The diagnosis is postanoxic encephalopathy (insufficient nutrition of the brain) and multiple failure of internal organs due to prolonged cardiac arrest.
Puerta's teammate that season was a Russian Alexander Kerzhakov.
Alexey Cherepanov
The death of a young, and also very talented, athlete becomes especially incomprehensible, and therefore even more terrible. Alexey Cherepanov, a graduate of Barnaul hockey, moved to Omsk at the age of 12. Already at the age of 18 he broke the record Pavel Bure in the number of goals for a newcomer in the Russian Championship, scoring 17 goals.
The life and career of a young hockey player was cut short on October 13, 2008 during a KHL championship match between Vityaz and Avangard. Alexey's heart stopped a few minutes before the end of the game. He reached the bench and fell. The called ambulance took a very long time, and for some unknown reason the doctors did not have a working defibrillator. Doctors performed heart massage and injected him with potent drugs, but to no avail. Alexey died of a heart attack before he was 20 years old.
The farewell to the Russian hockey star took place on October 15; according to various sources, the sad ceremony was attended by 50 to 80 thousand people. Among those who carried the coffin of the hockey player was his teammate, the world famous Czech Jaromir Jagr, who did not try to hold back his tears. Alexey Cherepanov was buried at the Staro-Severny cemetery in Omsk.
Olga Larkina
Frame from Match TV channel The 2015 world champion in synchronized swimming was one of those girls who should have personified all the beauty and strength of the traditionally victorious sport for Russia. She felt unwell during training on December 2, 2015, and complained of back pain.
However, this is common during physical activity. Baralgin and no-shpa cope with this. Synchronized swimmers coach Tatiana Pokrovskaya I decided to take care of the athlete and sent her to a hotel. By the evening, Olga felt noticeably worse, and she was sent for examination to a medical center, from where she was redirected to the Botkin Hospital. For 24 hours, doctors could not understand what was wrong - the kidneys, spleen, liver, in general, all abdominal organs were normal...
Olga Larkina died early in the morning of December 4 from an aortic aneurysm, a diagnosis more typical for older people. Experts note that even if the correct diagnosis was immediately miraculously made upon admission of the athlete, it would be unrealistic to prepare an operation and save the girl’s life.
Sergei Lebedev, a Russian judoka, received a severe spinal injury during a bout for the RSFSR championship and died in the hospital.
Elena Mukhina, the absolute world champion in artistic gymnastics, injured her cervical vertebrae during training before the Olympics in Moscow. She was bedridden for 26 years. The IOC awarded the courageous gymnast the Olympic Order. She died in December 2006.
Duk Koo Kim, a Korean boxer, died five days after losing his world title fight to American Ray Mancini from a cerebral hemorrhage caused by blows to the head.
David Thio - French boxer fell into a coma from a blow to the jaw during a fight with Terence Alli. He died that same evening.
Fabio Cazzartelli - Italian cyclist fell at a stage of the Tour de France, hit his head on the asphalt and died.
Sergei Grinkov, a figure skater, died suddenly of a heart attack on November 20 at the training rink of the Olympic Center in Lake Placid, America, at the age of 28. The legendary pair of figure skaters, two-time Olympic champions, multiple world and European champions Sergei Grinkov - Ekaterina Gordeeva in the late 80s - early 90s called the most beautiful couple in figure skating.
Manuel Sanroma, a Spanish cyclist, died after falling during a multi-day race in Catalonia.
Robert Benson, an American boxer, lost consciousness after a fight with Steve Dots from Uganda, spent five days in a coma and died.
Vyacheslav Bezukladnikov, a Russian hockey player, lost consciousness in July during a cross-country race at the pre-season training camp of the Lada team (Tolyatti) in Bulgaria. A week later, he died without regaining consciousness in a Sofia hospital. Official diagnosis: liver cirrhosis, renal failure. The hockey player was 32 years old.
Donny Maramis, an Indonesian boxer, died in hospital after being hit hard by opponent Stanley Katalo.
Sergei Perkhun, the CSKA goalkeeper, died after a collision with an Anzhi football player from a traumatic brain injury.
Manuel Sayas, a Filipino boxer, missed a strong blow in a fight, was deeply knocked out and died without regaining consciousness.
Andrey Kivilev, a Kazakh cyclist, suffered a severe head injury when he fell on the Paris-Nice race course and died in hospital.
Marc-Vivien Foe, a Cameroonian footballer, died of a heart attack in a match with the Colombian team.
Brad Rown, an American boxer, died of cardiac arrest during a fight.
Alessio Perilli, an Italian motorcycle racer, died during a European Championship competition.
Miklos Fehér, a Hungarian football player, felt unwell during a Portuguese football championship match on January 25, collapsing straight onto the lawn. Despite all the efforts of the doctors, his heart stopped even before he was taken to the hospital
Raimonds Jumikis, a Latvian basketball player, died suddenly on February 10 during a Swedish championship match. Doctors were unable to save the life of a 23-year-old guy who had previously had heart problems.
Shalva Akhazava is a player of the Georgian national team. The lifeless body of a 23-year-old athlete was found at the base of the Ukrainian football club Arsenal (Kyiv). As it turned out later, the athlete died in his sleep. Doctors diagnosed him with cardiomyopathy.
Andrey Pavitsky is a 17-year-old football player from Arsenal Kyiv. Died on February 29. during training. The cause of death at the training camp in Crimea was a heart attack.
Bruno Baiao, the 18-year-old captain of the junior team, died on May 15. Four days before his death, he lost consciousness for half an hour after one of his workouts. On that fateful day, he first fell into a coma and then died after he was offered a contract with the first team.
István Szabó is a football player for the Hungarian third division club Uraiufalu. On June 3, after training, I lost consciousness and never came to my senses. He was 27 years old.
Yakov Shapiro is a 46-year-old coach of Zhodino Torpedo. He died on June 10 after winning a match in the Belarusian football championship. His team snatched victory in the last minute of the game. A rejoicing Shapiro ran onto the field and immediately fell - he had a heart attack.
Tauras Stumbris, a Lithuanian basketball player, died on October 16 during a match between the Zalgiris and Atletas teams. Despite the fact that the ambulance team rushed to the hall 10 minutes later, they failed to bring the 34-year-old Lithuanian basketball player back to life. The cause of death was a heart attack.
Serginho, a 30-year-old Brazilian footballer, died on October 27 during a national championship game for the Sao Caetano club. Midway through the second half, he suffered a heart attack. All the doctors' efforts were in vain.
Sergei Zholtok, a Latvian hockey player, died on November 3 in Minsk during a meeting between the local Dynamo and Riga 2000. The 31-year-old striker of the Latvian club had a heart attack. The efforts of the doctors did not help - the forward died in the locker room. Official diagnosis: heart failure.
Ugis Metra, a Latvian motorcyclist, was fatally injured during a cross-country competition.
Alessio Galetti, a Spanish cyclist, lost consciousness shortly before the finish of the Asturias race. Died of a heart attack.
Chatchai Phaisitong, a Thai boxer, died from a blow from Russian Alexei Berarut.
Martin Sanchez, a Mexican boxer, died after a knockout in a fight with Russian Rustam Nugaev.
Olga Larkina is a two-time world champion in synchronized swimming. On December 7, I felt unwell during training in Moscow. She was hospitalized at the Botkin Hospital, where she died. Official diagnosis: pulmonary aortic aneurysm. Olga was only 20 years old.
Kim Jung Chil, a Korean rider, died during a show jumping competition at the Asian Games. The horse fell and crushed the rider.
Petar Vukasojevic, a Montenegrin basketball player, died on the bench during a national championship match a minute after leaving the game.
Antonio Puerta, a football player from the Spanish Sevilla, lost consciousness during the match and died two days later from cardiac arrest.
Jairo Nazareno, a football player from the Ecuadorian Chimborazzo, died after the match in which he scored the winning goal.
Chaswe Nsofwa, a Zambian football player, ex-forward of the Samara “Wings of the Soviets”, died of cardiac arrest during a training session of the Israeli team “Hapoel”.
Kirill Spassky, a 19-year-old midfielder of the youth team of Saturn near Moscow, died on May 4. The preliminary cause is acute heart failure.
Rustem Bulatov is an ex-football player of Rubin Kazan, CSKA, Tomsk Tomi and Anzhi (Makhachkala). In recent years, the athlete has worked at the Rubin Sports and Youth Sports School as a coach-teacher and played for one of the Kazan teams at the Tatarstan Republic Football Championship. C died suddenly on June 1 during one of the calendar games.
Evgeny Krotov, a 66-year-old athlete, one of 28 participants in the 672-kilometer Amur marathon swim, dedicated to the 150th anniversary of the return of the Amur region to Russia, died on June 11, 200 kilometers before the finish. According to the examination, the athlete died after a blood clot broke off and entered the heart along with the blood.
Igor Antosik, a 21-year-old hockey player from the Lynx HC, fell during a cross-country run. He died in intensive care.
Stanislav Nikolov, a 17-year-old football player of the Bulgarian group B club (third league) Aksakovo, died suddenly on September 21 during a break in the match of the third Bulgarian league Preslav - Aksakovo. Nikolov lost consciousness in the locker room and died on the way to the hospital. Doctors declared death as a result of a heart attack.
Ufuk Akkaynak, a footballer for the German lower division team Mainz Ditib, died of a heart attack on September 26 after scoring a goal against his opponents. For an hour and a half, doctors tried to save the player to no avail; he died in the hospital.
Alexey Cherepanov, a 19-year-old player of the Omsk hockey team “Avangard,” lost consciousness on October 13 at the Avangard match against Chekhov’s “Vityaz”. During the game, Cherepanov accidentally collided with a player from his own team, Olympic champion Jaromir Jagr. Alexei was sent to the bench, where he suddenly lost consciousness. The hockey player was urgently taken to one of the hospitals in Chekhov near Moscow, where the athlete died right in intensive care from cardiac arrest.
The material was prepared based on information from RIA Novosti and open sources
What do athletes die from? Anyone who follows the world of sports at least a little has probably asked themselves this question at least once. It is traditionally believed that sport improves health and prolongs life. Let's find out what athletes die from and what serious health problems they get from playing sports, even if their lives are not interrupted by sudden death.
Despite the high-profile revelations and doping scandals of recent decades, in the common consciousness there are two parallel views on this issue. On the one hand, the majority is inclined, if not to blame, then at least to suspect any successful athlete of using all sorts of “harmful chemicals.” But any media report about the sudden death of a famous athlete, especially one that happened at the peak of his career, causes shock and bewilderment: “Well, how can that be, he was so healthy?!!”
Death Race
Competitive sports have the greatest negative impact on health. And not only professional ones. This is understandable: in the pursuit of titles, titles, awards and fame, it is common for a person to sacrifice what is for the time being least noticeable: his health. Well, the fantastic fees inherent in certain sports only contribute to this “race to death.” On the other hand, with more money, there is also better and more thorough medical control and opportunities for rehabilitation of the athlete. And yet, almost every year the world shudders from yet another “deadly” news from the world of big-time sports. Basically, one way or another, all this news is related to taking illegal drugs to achieve the best results.
A sad exception to the general rule, perhaps, are some speed-strength sports. Such as amateur bodybuilding, powerlifting, boxing, martial arts. In them, an athlete can take a variety of stimulants without even competing. It is clear that in this case he falls into an increased risk group. Most often, such a would-be athlete does everything without any medical supervision, acting on the advice of friends, the Internet and according to his own ideas. How many athletes who never stepped on the platform, podium or ring died in obscurity, we can only guess.
Below I have selected for you various sad cases from different sports, one way or another related to the use of illegal drugs. Let's see what athletes die from?
History knows more than one case where death or injury occurred from an overdose of a particular drug or from an allergic reaction or incompatibility. It should be understood that the very concept of “chemistry” includes a variety of groups of drugs. The “black lists” of the International Olympic Committee include almost one and a half hundred drugs, not counting their analogues: 30 types of anabolic steroids, 32 types of diuretics, 4 types of peptides, 42 types of various stimulants, 34 types of drugs, and even such an exotic type of stimulation as “blood doping.” Some drugs, such as caffeine, are not directly prohibited, but the permissible level of their content in the blood is limited.
Even different sports have their own stimulants. So back in 1879, an English athlete died in France during a bicycle race. The cause is an overdose of amphetamines. For the same reason, cyclists Knud Jensen and Dick Howard died during the Olympic Games in Rome in 1960, and Englishman Tommy Simpson died on live television at the 1967 Tour de France. There have been cases of chess players dying from strokes caused by taking drugs that stimulate brain activity. And even a significant tightening of the fight against doping in sports, which began with the first doping test at the Olympics in Mexico City, alas, does not reduce the sad statistics.
Delayed action mine
Most often, “chemistry” acts as an indirect cause of unhappiness. In essence, it is a mine, with varying degrees of slowdown. Sometimes it acts quickly and then its influence can be associated with death or a critical condition, and sometimes the illusion of its harmlessness is created for many years. This provokes hundreds of thousands of athletes, including very young beginners, to take prohibited drugs, hoping that “maybe it will pass.” It is all the more useful to find out known cases of what athletes die from, in order to once again think about the need to resort to “chemistry”.
Famous Austrian professional bodybuilder Andreas Münzer died at the age of 31 from internal bleeding caused by taking diuretics and dehydration. Taking diuretics almost resulted in death right on the podium for two other famous bodybuilders - Paul Dillet and Flex Wheeler. An attack of renal failure would have inevitably caused the death of both if the doctors had hesitated even a little. But, alas, they did not have time to save the 33-year-old famous French bodybuilder Mohamed Benaziza. It would be wrong to think that kidney failure caused by diuretics claims the lives of only foreign champions. A promising 25-year-old Russian bodybuilder from Penza, Denis Sarychev, also died suddenly from it in 2009. And in 2013, with the same diagnosis, death took the “uncrowned Mr. Olympia” Nasser-El-Sonbati.
Some people are “luckier” and remain alive, but are forever deprived of the opportunity to lead their former life. Thus, in the late 1980s, as a result of abuse of pharmacology, which the athlete began taking back in 1969, professional American boxer Bob Hazelton lost both legs. The blood clot caused a gangrenous process in his leg, as a result of which the leg had to be amputated. Bob left the ring, but continued to train and take steroids, working as a bodyguard for Hollywood stars. Soon the sad fate of the first befell his second limb. Since then, he has become an ardent fighter against doping, confirming that his sad fate is directly related to the use of prohibited drugs.
What doesn't kill us does NOT make us stronger!
The most famous bodybuilder of our time, winner of eight Sandow statuettes (a prize for winning the Mr. Olympia competition), lost both hip joints. Several years ago he underwent prosthetics on both legs. Reason: the wild weights with which the athlete squatted in training. Coleman performed high-repetition squats with a weight of about 400 kg. and pressed my legs more than a ton! What does chemistry have to do with it, you ask? It's simple. Anabolic steroids cause an increase in strength and muscle mass, but do not help restore bones, cartilage and ligaments. In addition, they significantly increase the pain threshold. The athlete simply does not know that he has problems until something comes off or breaks in him. Because of this, a fairly common injury among professional powerlifters and bodybuilders is tendon rupture and muscle avulsion.
Another type of “chemistry” is. It is not a stimulant, but simply visually increases muscle volume without adding strength or functionality to them. Typically, professional bodybuilders use it for minor correction of genetically abnormal muscle shape. However, some “play around” with synthol so much that they end up on the operating table, or even in the cemetery. Reason: synthol causes impaired blood circulation in the muscles, which leads to necrosis and blood poisoning. Even if you don’t bring it to this point, there are often cases when the synthol muscles simply burst. A striking example of synthol abuse is Greg Valentino. He had almost increased the volume of his arms to a fantastic 70 cm, but it all ended in failure: several serious operations and now his arms are completely covered with ugly scars for the rest of his life.
Sowing Death
Today, extensive statistics have already been collected and studies have been conducted to answer the question: what causes athletes to die. Thus, the use of steroids, growth hormone and other stimulant drugs can cause blood clots, gangrene and tissue necrosis. And also – the formation of cancerous tumors and the cause of uncontrolled aggression, which can also end in death. The body of Canadian wrestler Chris Benoit, a WWF and WWE star, was found by police in his own home in 2007. Nearby were the corpses of his wife and seven-year-old son. According to police findings, the wrestler killed his child and wife, and then committed suicide. The murder and suicide were committed in a fit of aggression, followed by a peak depressive state. This is a common side effect of regularly taking testosterone derivatives, which the wrestler has been abusing for many years.
Only the mercy of justice saved the famous English bodybuilder Bertil Fox, the idol of thousands of Soviet boys in the 80s, from execution. In August 1997, in a fit of uncontrollable aggression caused by alcohol and taking anabolic steroids, he shot his wife Lejoka Brown and her mother with a shotgun.
More successfully for the bodybuilder’s wife, and less successfully for him, a family quarrel with his wife Sally ended for the Olympia audience’s favorite, Ray McNeil. In February 1995, she put an end to the so-called man who regularly beat her in attacks. “steroid rage” by the husband with two shots from a gun at point-blank range. However, in this tragic story there was another interesting detail that became clear during the investigation. Sally McNeil herself, as it turned out, was also on steroids and at times had little control over her actions.
What athletes die from: “detonator” for cancer
American football player Lyle Alzado died of brain cancer caused by taking growth hormones and anabolic steroids for 26 years. These drugs stimulate the unnatural proliferation of body cells, which is based on processes similar to the proliferation of cancer cells. In case of predisposition, the use of GH causes the activation of the tumor formation mechanism.
Manchester bodybuilder Dean Wormby has died from liver cancer. What became the catalyst for the disease is not known exactly, since the athlete, by his own admission, in addition to growth hormone and anabolic steroids, consumed an insane amount of protein food - his diet reached 10 thousand kilocalories per day. And the athlete received energy and vigor for training by drinking up to a dozen cans of energy drinks a day.
Heart attack is the leader in the fatal rating
Finally, the winner of the sad “death rating” among athletes is a heart attack, which claimed the most lives in sports. Including those who have already completed the period of active performances. Most often, it is caused by the so-called “athletic heart syndrome”. It lies in the fact that during many years of exhausting training while taking hormonal stimulants, the walls of the heart thicken and lose elasticity. Its uneven development is observed, and the valves wear out. As a result, sooner or later spasms, arrhythmias and ruptures of the heart muscles and blood vessels begin. What is characteristic: even after stopping taking stimulants, the heart does not return to its original state. Therefore, problems can arise even when a sports career seems to have been successfully and painlessly completed. Another cause of death for retired athletes, also associated with the “sports heart,” is heart failure. Over many years of training, the heart gets used to pumping an increased volume of blood. After completing regular training, the amount of blood decreases, but the heart still requires more blood than is in the circulatory system of the former athlete. For example, the giant Greg Kovacs died of heart failure.
The victims of a heart attack were the famous American bodybuilder and creator of the famous training system that competed with Vader’s, Mike Mentzer. Two days later, for the same reason, the life of his twin brother Ray, Mike’s long-time training partner, was cut short. The famous “gladiator” and showman Russian Vladimir Turchinsky, world bench press champions Anthony Clark and Ukrainian Vitaly Ponomarenko, as well as the famous bodybuilder Mike Matarazzo died “from the heart.” And in July 2017, the same fatal diagnosis claimed the life of the famous Ukrainian bodybuilder and powerlifter, 54-year-old Crimean Mikhail Bekoev.
This is not a complete list of reasons why athletes die and what ruins their lives forever. But I hope it will make many people think.
