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[Liam]

"clubhappy":1a8q2og7 said:

A Dublin GAA footballer  also died last Sunday evening , not sure of the details but a terrible week for sport.

Suicide, tragically.

[german-blue]

f**king sh*t

RIP ...

[The Moos]

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Chaswe Nsofwa who plays for Hapoel Beersheba in Israel died today. Cause of death is apparently unknown at the moment.

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[TomP]

"Valerie":2zbjcqvp said:

Cycling is a sport that, for the last few years especially, has seen some sudden deaths from athletes. The sport has a bad reputation for performance-enhancing drugs, and the deaths were inevitably linked to drug abuse.
Of course I don't want to insinuate something  {SMILIES_PATH}/139.gif , not knowing anything about the circumstances, but drug abuse can't be ruled out as a cause of death for young, fit sports men and women, among them football players.

Speaking from a medical perspective, there are two main reasons why heart-attacks in otherwise young, fit and healthy individuals occur:

1. Unfortunately, as Valarie pointed out, the increased use of performance enhancing drugs - which are linked to a vast range of cardiac-related side effects.

2.  Congential cardiac abnormalities - in particular a condition where one of the coronary arteries (which supply blood/oxygen to the heart muscle) follows an unusual course between the aorta and pulmonary artery, causing it to become blocked when the heart is under stress.  It is basically a very unlucky birth defect that approximately 1 in 50,000 of us.

Unfortunately, these types of abnormalities are exceedingly difficult to pick up with standard cardiac testing.  It is definately not something that the club's medical team should be blamed for not picking up - unfortunately, these abnormalities are usually only pick up after a heart attack has occured, which can often be too late.  

It's like trying to find and fix problems with your plumbing in your house when you have never had a water leak anywhere before.

These deaths are always particularly tragic, as they strike down people young people in the prime of their lives, who are amongst the most physically fit people going around.

[lukasz]

"The Moos":rbx3xrcs said:

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I wonder myself. Season just started. Maybe it's a matter of wrong pre-season preparations?

Don't really know but I can think of 2 explanations. First of all Valerie may be right. What I have on mind are not necessarily some illegal substances, but it may have something to do with all the medicines that are used when player is injured. Nowadays footballers recover from sometimes really serious injuries in no time. I'm afraid that their overall health is often less important than just making them able to play.

As for what your mother said I wonder if the explanation isn't prosaic. Maybe things like that happen more often than we think, but only when something bad happens to a well known player, it gets the media attention and because of it, similar events hit the news for some time after...

[Gem]

It just gets worse  {SMILIES_PATH}/icon_sad.gif according to Pepe Reina, Puerta's girlfriend is 8 months pregnant.

Saw pictures of his funeral on The Sun's website, couldn't help but bring tears to my eyes  {SMILIES_PATH}/icon_sad.gif

[mad_mac]

sad sad news.  RIP