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Death in Young Athletes

9 May, 2008 (11:55) | Athletics Health Issue | By: mctreve

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Have you ever experienced or know of someone who was unlikely to die and yet he died. I am not speaking about an accident here but perhaps a disease. One could be very healthy and yet suddenly die. A healthy normal athletic person dies and autopsy reports cannot find the source of death. I read in an internet article about a 23-year-old male athlete who suddenly fell off the treadmill and instantly died. He wasn’t smoking, drinking or did drugs, and he was health conscious, but how did this happen. What could be the probable cause of the athlete’s death?