Banned Tennis Player, Montcourt, Dies at 24

[Love Game]

PARIS (AP)—French tennis player Mathieu Montcourt, who was recently banned for betting on matches, has died. He was 24.

The French tennis federation said Tuesday that Montcourt died overnight but the cause of death is not yet known, and an autopsy will be conducted.

French media reported the 119th-ranked Montcourt was found dead by his girlfriend in the stairwell of his Paris apartment. In May, Montcourt was handed a five-week ban and fined $12,000 for betting on other matches. That ban took effect Monday.

“It is with great sadness that the French tennis federation has learned of the sudden death of Mathieu Montcourt,” the French tennis federation said. “Mathieu was an enthusiastic young man, passionate, very endearing, and extremely appreciated for his kindness and politeness.” ...

A moment of silence was planned before the first match Tuesday at The Hall of Fame Tennis Championships in Newport, R.I.

“It’s really sad. I practiced with him for the first time at Roland Garros,” said Fabrice Santoro, the two-time Newport defending champion. ...

http://sports.yahoo.com/ten/news;_y...v7YF?slug=ap-obit-montcourt&prov=ap&type=lgns

 

[Andy G]

He probably blew his brains out when he visited TW and saw all the ridiculous threads about GOAT this and GOAT that. I know it makes me want to kill myself.

 

[Deleted member 21996]

He probably blew his brains out when he visited TW and saw all the ridiculous threads about GOAT this and GOAT that. I know it makes me want to kill myself.

im not sure this is the apropriatte thread to make that point but you sure got it spot on!

why dont the mods delete th endless threads on GOAT this and that \ Shrieking & Gruntin bs \ Wta is a disgrace ...


Back on Topic: Rest in Peace Mathieu!

 

[tennismsands]

Man, thats sad. didnt he play in roland garros this year and got to the second round?

 

[Fedfan1234]

im not sure this is the apropriatte thread to make that point but you sure got it spot on!

why dont the mods delete th endless threads on GOAT this and that \ Shrieking & Gruntin bs \ Wta is a disgrace ...


Back on Topic: Rest in Peace Mathieu!

Because this is a forum where people can give their opinion. Not the opinion of a moderator but their own. They can also start subjects they want to discuss, not subject a moderator wants to discuss. This is the whole point of a forum. If you don't like it, than don't be here. This isn't Iran, you know. If you don't like a thread don't read it, if you disagree ignore or just say you disagree with some explanation and move on.

 

[icedevil0289]

oh wow, that's so sad.

RIP

 

[Serendipitous]

 

[bdon]

was probably killed by the bookies

 

[sureshs]

Probably hit against Nadal and could not handle his topspin.

 

[Sangria Munky]

really saddening...i love u mathieu. Rest in peace

 

[wyutani]

im sure they regretted banning him now.

 

[tintin]

was probably killed by the bookies

Probably hit against Nadal and could not handle his topspin.

you 2 have no shame

a young man dies of a heart attack and you find it funny talking bookies and topspin?

 

[firstblud]

Probably hit against Nadal and could not handle his topspin.

i laughed

 

[dadozen]

was probably killed by the bookies

Probably hit against Nadal and could not handle his topspin.

What's truly sad is people like you making horrible jokes about the fact.

 

[shrakkie]

Some poster have no shame. It is horrible.

I hope his friends and family are okay, what a shame. So young.

 

[firstblud]

sounds shady... maybe a hit or drug abuse

 

[tintin]

sounds shady... maybe a hit or drug abuse

seems like you are either stupid;******** or you want to get a rise out of people by downplaying an unknown medical condition that killed a man who just days before his untimely death;was playing a tournament only to be found lifeless in his stairs by his companion

heart attack idiot not a hit or drug abuse

 

[El Diablo]

At his age, death in one's sleep is most often suicide, murder, or cocaine abuse. firstblud's point is not at all stupid. What unknown medical conditions in a 24 year old athlete are likely to cause death in one's sleep??

 

[tintin]

from rafaelnadal . com
Quote:
JULY 07 | 2009
MON AMI MATHIEU MONTCOURT

Manacor, Spain - July 7th 2009

This morning I woke up with one of the worst news anyone can receive. I heard about the death of our friend Mathieu Montcourt. I am still under shock for this. I can't believe it.

I knew Mathieu since we were kids. We competed together at all the events at an international level there is since you are a kid: Les Petit As, Copa Borotta, etc. and of course afterwards once becoming professionals,.

When someone like this disappears, when something like this happens, you really know where we are and the relativeness of winning or losing a tennis match, of not competing at an event or anything else. This is the loss of a guy who was only 24 and that was sports person. He won't be playing with us again.

I would like to send my most deep and sincere condolences to his family, to his friends and to the French fans.

Mathieu, Rest in peace.

Rafa Nadal

http://www.lequipe.fr/Tennis/breves2009/20090708_154459_une-mort-naturelle.html
Tennis-Décès de Montcourt
Une cause naturelle

Selon les premiers résultats de l'autopsie, le décès de Mathieu Montcourt, survenu dans la nuit de lundi à mardi, serait naturel. «D'après ces premiers éléments, nous concluons à une mort naturelle. Il faut toutefois attendre le résultat des analyses toxicologiques, qui devraient être disponibles la semaine prochaine, pour en être totalement certains», a précisé la source policière. L'autopsie a été pratiquée mercredi matin, à l'Institut Médico-légal de Paris. (Avec AFP)

Fabio Fognini's homage during San Benedetto's Challenger[/B

 

[tintin]

There are a few pics of the ceremony in Roland-Garros on dppi.

he was cremated

 

[malakas]

It was really really sad and shocking news.
I went to his website and sent my condolences to his family.

 

[ollinger]

If in fact he had a heart attack, he's probably a good and unfortunate example of how stress -- related to his gambling problems -- can do this. Acute stress tends to raise circulating cortisol levels, cortisol causes blood platelets to become "stickier," sticky platelets are more likely to cause clots.

 

[tintin]

If in fact he had a heart attack, he's probably a good and unfortunate example of how stress -- related to his gambling problems -- can do this. Acute stress tends to raise circulating cortisol levels, cortisol causes blood platelets to become "stickier," sticky platelets are more likely to cause clots.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/tennis/8143176.stm
there is no "if" as for the reason of his death,it was proven that he had a heart attack.

http://www.lepost.fr/article/2009/07/09/1614114_mathieu-montcourt-est-mort-d-un-infarctus.html

this was not related to his supposed gambling problems.He wasn't doing drugs and wasn't doping.He went out and was found dead at the bottom of his stairs.This went undetected plain and simple.Do the man a favor folks and quite slimming his name and spreading false rumors




this is exactly how rumors starts spreading around and we have OLLINGER, FIRSTBLUD, BDON, SURESH doing just that

 

[dwhiteside]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/tennis/8143176.stm
there is no "if" as for the reason of his death,it was proven that he had a heart attack.

http://www.lepost.fr/article/2009/07/09/1614114_mathieu-montcourt-est-mort-d-un-infarctus.html

this was not related to his supposed gambling problems.He wasn't doing drugs and wasn't doping.He went out and was found dead at the bottom of his stairs.This went undetected plain and simple.Do the man a favor folks and quite slimming his name and spreading false rumors




this is exactly how rumors starts spreading around and we have OLLINGER, FIRSTBLUD, BDON, SURESH doing just that

And what exactly could cause an extremely physically fit 24 year old professional athlete in the prime of his life to have a heart attack? Drugs are definitely a likely suspect. How do we know he wasn't doing drugs? Someone who is gambling like that is certainly in a situation where drugs will be all around them, same with French nightlife, and now that he wasn't playing in the ATP and wasn't being drug tested it wouldn't have been such a pain to do them. A rare or hereditary medical condition, or some form of infection or virus is possible as well, but usually 24 year old tennis pros don't have heart attacks; this is obvious. 24 year olds don't have heart attacks in general. Just because his tox screen at time of death was negative doesn't mean he hadn't been abusing drugs that affect the heart like stimulants. There are also plenty of conditions that theoretically could cause a healthy 24 year old to have a heart attack, even someone with no clear history of a weak heart (given his competing), but in more cases than not it's probably drug related.

 

[Love Game]

the wierd thing is that this death happened almost a couple months ago, and i posted the OP at that time, but almost nobody commented.

why now?

 

[dwhiteside]

the wierd thing is that this death happened almost a couple months ago, and i posted the OP at that time, but almost nobody commented.

why now?

Oh wow, that's very weird, I didn't even look at the date!!!! Strange I neva hurda this.

 

[tintin]

And what exactly could cause an extremely physically fit 24 year old professional athlete in the prime of his life to have a heart attack? Drugs are definitely a likely suspect. How do we know he wasn't doing drugs? Someone who is gambling like that is certainly in a situation where drugs will be all around them, same with French nightlife, and now that he wasn't playing in the ATP and wasn't being drug tested it wouldn't have been such a pain to do them. A rare or hereditary medical condition, or some form of infection or virus is possible as well, but usually 24 year old tennis pros don't have heart attacks; this is obvious. 24 year olds don't have heart attacks in general. Just because his tox screen at time of death was negative doesn't mean he hadn't been abusing drugs that affect the heart like stimulants. There are also plenty of conditions that theoretically could cause a healthy 24 year old to have a heart attack, even someone with no clear history of a weak heart (given his competing), but in more cases than not it's probably drug related.

the FFT conducts it's own drug testing and they share those results with the ITF/ATP/WTA and the Anti Doping Agency and vice versa

why do you think around the FO is when the likes of Karatantcheva,Puerta;Canas;Puerta and the other druggies are found positive

this was proven to be a condition that went undetected.Xavier Malisse too has a heart condition;in fact a malformation he was born with but he wasn't until he was in his early 20's that they found out after he almost had a heart attack.I saved the article somewhere but I am too lazy to go look for it
hope you get my drift?

if you chose to falsely believe that this was drug related;I'm done.

i have back pain due to back injection so i'm not gonna hang around much.have a nice day.

 

[dwhiteside]

the FFT conducts it's own drug testing and they share those results with the ITF/ATP/WTA and the Anti Doping Agency and vice versa

why do you think around the FO is when the likes of Karatantcheva,Puerta;Canas;Puerta and the other druggies are found positive

this was proven to be a condition that went undetected.Xavier Malisse too has a heart condition;in fact a malformation he was born with but he wasn't until he was in his early 20's that they found out after he almost had a heart attack.I saved the article somewhere but I am too lazy to go look for it
hope you get my drift?

if you chose to falsely believe that this was drug related;I'm done.

i have back pain due to back injection so i'm not gonna hang around much.have a nice day.

I don't believe it was drug related and I don't believe it wasn't drug related - I have no way of knowing and a toxicological screening and postmortem drug testing is not conclusive in any way; my point is that it's entirely logical to think it a very real possibility as a contributor to the sudden death of a healthy 24 year old professional athlete with no history of cardiac issues. It's also logical to think it wasn't a contributor, but it's not logical to think it not a possibility at all solely based on a tox screen and based on drug testing. There are many ways to pass drug and doping tests in professional athletics, as is fairly well known.

 

[Annika]

He probably blew his brains out when he visited TW and saw all the ridiculous threads about GOAT this and GOAT that. I know it makes me want to kill myself.

How can we get rid of the troll???? Not to mention, 24 is so young.

 

[luckyboy1300]

the FFT conducts it's own drug testing and they share those results with the ITF/ATP/WTA and the Anti Doping Agency and vice versa

why do you think around the FO is when the likes of Karatantcheva,Puerta;Canas;Puerta and the other druggies are found positive

this was proven to be a condition that went undetected.Xavier Malisse too has a heart condition;in fact a malformation he was born with but he wasn't until he was in his early 20's that they found out after he almost had a heart attack.I saved the article somewhere but I am too lazy to go look for it
hope you get my drift?

if you chose to falsely believe that this was drug related;I'm done.

i have back pain due to back injection so i'm not gonna hang around much.have a nice day.

i believe this is also the case. most young athletes who suddenly dies during their physical primes were attributed to genetic heart conditions which went undetected. these conditions, most of the times, will exhibit no symptoms and the first manifestation is the sudden death itself. these conditions can only be detected with effective screening methods such as ecg, etc. some orgs are pushing for screening for every athlete but was found out to be not cost-effective since the incidence rate is still extremely rare.

 

[luckyboy1300]

At his age, death in one's sleep is most often suicide, murder, or cocaine abuse. firstblud's point is not at all stupid. What unknown medical conditions in a 24 year old athlete are likely to cause death in one's sleep??

yes there are. http://www.c-r-y.org.uk/sudden_death_syndrome.htm

 

[ubermeyer]

oh man... poor guy.

 

[pound cat]

yes there are. http://www.c-r-y.org.uk/sudden_death_syndrome.htm

http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&s...iac++arrest&btnG=Google+Search&meta=&aq=f&oq=

Another example


Asiago's Canadian defender Darcy Robinson, 26 years, dies after an heart-attack during Asiago - Renon match at Odegar arena in Asiago tonight.
After 3 minutes in the first period Robinson, who recently passed all medical tests without problems, fainted on ice unconscious after shooting the puck. Immediately rescued and taken to local hospital, died after few minutes.
All matches of league were immediately suspended. At now most probable cause of death is cardiac arrest.