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Originally Posted by ashley12
Story time.
As a kid I played lawn bowls (very old person sport) and we actually had someone have a heart attack/pass away during a competition. The person who died (who was approx 80) would have been about 25m away from me at the time. I didnt see the person collapse and one of the adults I was playing with was smart enough to shield me from what was going on.
Game was abandoned. We left an hour and a half or so later and found out the person had died just as we boarded the bus. Bus ride home discussion was should we have played it out and vast majority of bus agreed we should have (to add, person who died wasnt playing for our club or our rivals club, just happened to be playing a different division vs a different team at the same time.
Still blows my mind to this day they all wanted to play on.
My dad played handball as a boy / adolescent. One game or tourney a boy from another team got hit straight on the solar plexus - I think he was in the wall on a free throw. He never came back, he died right there. How awful that must've been for everyone and the one who threw it!
Back to the Denmark game, the German station ZDF showed wide shots of the stadium and the pitch with the longest silence I can remember from any sports commentator ever. They shortly went back to the studio with shocked pundits Christoph Kramer and Per Mertesacker and then switched to an episode of
Der Bergdoktor. I thought that was a good response as can be in this tragedy, especially reading about how other stations handled it.