'We kept expecting it to come': Witness claims there was no defibrillator around when Grant Wahl died
LUSAIL, QATAR: US soccer journalist Grant Wahl tragically died on Saturday, December 10, after suffering an apparent heart attack while covering the FIFA World Cup quarter-final between Argentina and Netherlands at Lusail’s iconic stadium. The untimely death of the 48-year-old journalist had sent shockwaves through the soccer world and beyond as another journalist who witnessed the sportswriter collapse before his death recounted the chaotic scramble to save him.
Josh Glancy, a special correspondent for The Sunday Times, shared a recounting of the events and revealed there was no defibrillator nearby when Wahl collapsed during the match. "Why wasn't there a defibrillator? That was the question we kept asking each other, as the medics pumped and pumped to no avail," Glancy wrote in a piece for The Times. "At this billion-dollar state-of-the-art stadium, which has a VIP suite so lavish it includes a bedroom, which will host the World Cup final, why was there no defibrillator to hand? Many minutes passed, and we kept expecting it to come. But it never did."