#Joshua downie death professional#

compose myself for a few seconds before we started resuscitation”. London marathon medical director Sanjay Sharma was called to the scene, expecting “to find a man in his seventies”, but was reported as having said “I had to hide my horror as I saw a young, athletic woman … I had to. In April 2012, Claire Squires (UK), a participant in the London Marathon “collapsed on the final stretch of the 26.2-mile course”. His heart “stopped beating for 78 minutes”.

#Joshua downie death professional#

In March 2012, then professional footballer Fabrice Muamba (UK) collapsed 43 minutes after kick-off.

In 2006, Spurs striker Radwan Hamed (UK), then 17, suffered a heart attack during his first professional game. Sudden cardiac arrest and death in athletes and the young is not new. The following day, he was interviewed on GB News where he called for an investigation into the matter, appearing to suggest that this phenomenon – although pre-existing – had reached epidemic proportions. On the 24th of August 2022, former professional football player Matt Le Tissier shared on Twitter a link to Good Sciencing a “non-exhaustive and continuously growing list of mainly young athletes who had major medical issues in 2021/2022 after receiving one or more COVID vaccines”. The COVID vaccines were not available to his age group in the UK until after the 7th of June 2021. Amateur cricketer Josh Downie (24, UK) was reported as having died on pitch of a heart attack on the 10th of May 2021. Wigan striker Charlie Wyke (28, UK) suffered cardiac arrest during training in November 2021, and was said to have been unvaccinated at the time of the incident. In 2021, it was reported that NHL player Josh Archibald (29, US) had developed myocarditis.

Assuming the figures provided by the major leagues are correct, then it is reasonable to assume that the majority of professional athletes have as of today, received at least one dose of a given COVID vaccine. Similar rates were reported by other leagues 98% for Serie A (Italy), 95% for Ligue 1 (France), 92% for Bundesliga (Germany) and LaLiga (Spain). However, as of the 21st of December 2021, the Premier League (UK) confirmed that the majority of its players (92%) had received one, two or three doses of a COVID vaccine. The following day, Giuseppe Marotta, director of Eriksen’s club, Inter Milan, stated that Eriksen had not been vaccinated at the time of the incident. The news rapidly spread on Social Media, with many speculating that the novel COVID vaccines being rolled out across the world were to blame. On the 12th of June 2021, Danish Premier League football player Christian Eriksen collapsed on pitch during the first half of the Euro 2020 game against Finland, having suffered cardiac arrest. If you haven’t done so already, please read the first article in the series.