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In Memoriam: Fallen Sports Stars of 2024
TikToker Caleb Graves’ last posts were a haunting foreshadowing.
After helium completed Disneyland’s Sept. 8 half-marathon amid a three-digit heatwave successful California, the avid runner collapsed and was eventually pronounced dead. And now, fans are looking backmost the 35-year-old’s past video, successful which helium spoke astir the precocious temperatues impacting his run.
"Disneyland Half Marathon, the Halloween Half Marathon, is time and I'm marginally disquieted now,” Graves told his astir 18k followers in a Sept. 7 video, conscionable 1 time earlier his death. “I went extracurricular contiguous astir 2:00—which is astir apt the hottest portion of the day—and it was 90-something degrees.”
Graves—born Bobby Graves but who went by Caleb online—also elaborate his recent, worrying experiences exercising successful the precocious heat.
"I person immoderate susceptibility, I don't cognize if it's impermanent oregon long-term, to heat,” helium admitted successful the clip. “Because I was extracurricular for similar 20 minutes, walking my dog, and it was hot, but I felt good and past similar 10 minutes aft I got backmost in, I conscionable passed out."
He continued, "I conscionable fell asleep—no power implicit my body. It was vigor exhaustion, it's lone happened erstwhile to maine before. I don't cognize what's going on, but I truly anticipation I get done the contention time morning."
In a consequent post, Graves again warned followers of the precocious heat, captioning it, “Stay hydrated and perceive to your body. Good luck to each the runners!"
Caleb Graves/Instagram
However, successful a heartbreaking crook of events, helium collapsed instantly aft the half-marathon, Anaheim Police Sgt. Matt Sutter confirmed to People, and was pronounced dormant astatine a adjacent infirmary aft being receiving aesculapian attraction determination astatine the contention site.
"The contention started astatine 5 a.m.,” the sergeant explained to the outlet, adding Caleb finished the 13 miles successful nether 2 hours, arsenic helium completed the contention astir 7 a.m. “As soon arsenic helium crossed the decorativeness line, helium started grabbing his chest. One of the workers noticed and ran up to him and caught him earlier helium collapsed."
“Medics realized Caleb had gone “into cardiac arrest,” Sutter continued, “performed life-saving measures and transported him close distant to the hospital.”
“They worked connected him for an hour” helium continued, “but helium was pronounced deceased astatine the hospital.”
The Orange County Coroner's Office would beryllium handling the autopsy, Sutter said, but that the study could instrumentality weeks oregon months to beryllium released.
"I've spoken to aesculapian professionals who accidental that 1 oregon 2 cardiac events tin hap during a large contention similar this,” Sutter noted. “But the deaths are rare.”
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