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When sports journalist Grant Wahl collapsed and died while covering the World Cup in Qatar, people wondered what caused the death of the 49-year-old. An autopsy performed by the New York City Medical Examiner’s Office determined he died from “the rupture of a slowly growing, undetected ascending aortic aneurysm with hemopericardium.”