{"id":154818,"date":"2022-12-11T18:03:01","date_gmt":"2022-12-11T18:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/grant-wahl-a-charming-kind-and-talented-journalist\/"},"modified":"2022-12-11T18:03:01","modified_gmt":"2022-12-11T18:03:01","slug":"grant-wahl-a-charming-kind-and-talented-journalist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/grant-wahl-a-charming-kind-and-talented-journalist\/","title":{"rendered":"Grant Wahl: A charming, kind and talented journalist"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n \n It was 5 am and I couldn’t sleep; my mind was replaying the extraordinary drama of Argentina’s penalty shootout victory over the Netherlands, over and over again.\n <\/p>\n \n And then I checked my phone. I thought I was going to throw up.\n <\/p>\n \n The American soccer journalist Grant Wahl, who’d also been covering the game at Lusail, had died.\n <\/p>\n \n At first, social media was full of concerned rumors, but then came the horrifying confirmation. It all seemed so sudden, and too bizarre, to be true.\n <\/p>\n \n Grant had been tweeting about the match, he’d posted about the improbable stoppage-time Dutch equalizer which took the match into extra time. But then, as more than 80,000 fans were absorbed by the drama on the field, Grant was fighting for his life. As we now know, frantic efforts to revive him were tragically unsuccessful.\n <\/p>\n \n If my own personal experience is anything to go by, for many of the journalists covering the World Cup in Qatar, the hours since then have been a surreal and nauseating blur.\n <\/p>\n
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