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Olympic h2o polo jock Madeline Musselman shared a loving tribute to her hubby Pat Woepse who died astatine the property of 31 successful October 2024 aft battling a uncommon signifier of cancer.
By Sabba Rahbar Nov 07, 2024 8:29 PMTags
In Memoriam: Fallen Sports Stars of 2024
Madeline Musselman is remembering her precocious husband.
Less than a period aft the Olympian shared her husband Pat Woepse had died astatine 31 pursuing a conflict with a uncommon signifier of crab called NUT carcinoma, she joined household and friends to observe his beingness astatine an outing to Newport Beach, Calif.
In summation to a religion service, Pat's loved ones honored him with an water aquatics arsenic a tribute to the late UCLA h2o polo player, who erstwhile swam crossed the English Channel.
"All for you, Pat. All for you," Madeline captioned a Nov. 3 Instagram video. "We emotion you and miss you. We tin bash hard things. PW FOREVER."
The 26-year-old—who won golden with her h2o polo squad astatine the 2020 Tokyo and 2016 Rio Olympics—first shared the quality of Pat's passing connected Oct. 10.
"No words to picture the ache of missing him" she wrote on Instagram alongside a photograph of the 2 connected the beach. "He was the airy of my beingness and my person. He was my archetypal emotion and the champion hubby I could person ever asked for."
She added, "And though it feels dense and I can't respire arsenic I beryllium present typing this out, helium is nary longer successful symptom and was truthful astatine bid during his past moments. He battled 1 of the astir uncommon cancers for implicit a year, ne'er complained, and fought harder than anyone should person to combat for thing successful their life."
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But he'll ever beryllium successful her heart.
"I emotion you truthful overmuch babe," she said. "I volition beryllium missing you forever."
Madeline and Pat archetypal met successful 2022 and joined successful October 2023, shortly aft learning astir his crab diagnosis.
"All the radical that came unneurotic to marque it hap wrong 4 days," Madeline recalled to NBCLos Angeles in August, "it was beauteous crazy. We had flowers. We had a religion that welcomed america with unfastened arms to wed us. It was conscionable a cleanable weekend."
Pat had antecedently shared that contempt his wellness and the chemotherapy treatments helium was undergoing, helium was determined to ticker his woman vie astatine the 2024 Paris Olympics—and he did.
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"This was my biggest goal, with everything being truthful unknown," he told NBC. "So beauteous emotional, affectional time for me. Couldn't beryllium much thrilled to beryllium present to enactment Maddie and the team.
And portion the mates wanted to support galore aspects of their lives private, the athletes shared their hope that by being unfastened astir their communicative they could beryllium an inspiration to others dealing with hard situations.
"We're sharing our communicative not for radical to consciousness atrocious for america oregon consciousness atrocious for what we're going through," Madeline said. "If thing it's for inspiration and that you tin get to the different broadside of things With the radical that are close adjacent to you, we anticipation for that."
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