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Retired athlete found dead in US Virgin Islands on 21 February
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Investigators for the US Virgin Islands Police Department are “anxiously awaiting” Jamie Cail’s autopsy and toxicology results.
Glen Dratte, director of communications for the department, told CNN it was “crucial” to be accurate.
He said that all deaths were looked into by the Criminal Investigations Bureau but added that there were “a lot of moving parts” in the probe.
Cail, 42, was found unresponsive by her boyfriend in their St John home at 12.08am on 21 February, police said.
Cail’s partner and a friend took her to a clinic where she was given CPR before being pronounced dead. A cause of death has not been revealed.
Cail, from New Hampshire, was a top high school and university athlete who was part of a relay team that won a gold medal at the 1997 Pan Pacific Championships. She later swam for the University of Maine.
According to police, her unnamed boyfriend had been out at a bar on the night that she died.
Distraught family and friends paid tribute to Cail as a “beautiful person” with a “huge heart”.
Family and friends pay tribute following death of former swimming champion
Friends and family have paid tribute to a former champion swimmer who died after being found unresponsive at her home in the US Virgin Islands.
Jamie Cail, 42, was found on the floor by her boyfriend on 21 February after he left a bar to check up on her, according to officials.
Authorities say that the unnamed boyfriend and a friend carried Cail to a vehicle and drove her to the Myrah Keating-Smith Community Health Center.
“Once at the clinic, CPR was rendered and 911 was notified, however, the female succumbed to her ailment,” police said in a statement. Investigators have now launched a criminal investigation into her death.
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Family and friends pay tribute following death of former swimming champion Jamie Cail
Cail, 42, died after being found unresponsive on floor of home in US Virgin Islands by boyfriend
Represented US national B team at the FINA World Cup in Brazil
Cail, originally from Claremont, New Hampshire, was a teenage swimming champion in the 1990s. She represented the US national B team at the FINA World Cup in Brazil and won a silver medal in the 800m freestyle event in 1998-99.
She won gold in 1997 at the Pan Pacific Swimming Championships.
Cail was reportedly a member of the University of Maine’s women’s swim team in the early 2000s.
Anti-vaxxers share video insisting Cail’s death ‘not normal’
As we await news from the US Virgin Islands police on the death of Jamie Cail, the information void is being filled unhelpfully and baselessly by online speculation about the possible cause.
One YouTube video in particular from a media outlet called the Black and White Sports Network is being shared in which the host simply reads out a Breitbart report about her death and insists it is “not normal” for a 42-year-old athlete to pass away so suddenly.
He freely admits that he does not know any more about the case than anyone else but insinuates that an adverse reaction to a Covid-19 vaccine could be to blame.
To reiterate, the authorities have still not given an update on Jamie Cail’s autopsy results or cause of death or said anything more regarding the investigation since announcing its commencement.
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Jamie Cail, 42, was found lying on the floor of the house she shared with her boyfriend in the early hours of 21 February.
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One of the top high school swimmers of the 1990s has been found dead in the US Virgin Islands. Jamie Cail was only 42 years old and the cause of death remains a mystery.
The body of the retired swimming champion was discovered in the home she shared with her boyfriend in St John on 21 February, local police say.
Ms Cail, originally from Claremont, New Hampshire, was part of a relay team that won a gold medal at the 1997 Pan Pacific Championships before she enrolled at the University of Maine and competed as part of its swim team in the 2000/01 academic year, according to ABC News.
She’s being remembered as “one of the best high school swimmers in the country in the 1990s”.
This is everything we know about Jamie Cail:
Everything we know about the death of US swimmer Jamie Cail
Top high school and university athlete found unresponsive by boyfriend at shared residence in US Virgin Islands on 21 February, Gustaf Kilander and Joe Sommerlad report
Represented US national B team at the FINA World Cup in Brazil
Cail, originally from Claremont, New Hampshire, was a teenage swimming champion in the 1990s. She represented the US national B team at the FINA World Cup in Brazil and won a silver medal in the 800m freestyle event in 1998-99.
She won gold in 1997 at the Pan Pacific Swimming Championships.
Cail was reportedly a member of the University of Maine’s women’s swim team in the early 2000s.
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Jamie Cail: Family and friends pay tribute following death of former swimming champion
Friends and family have paid tribute to a former champion swimmer who died after being found unresponsive at her home in the US Virgin Islands.
Jamie Cail, 42, was found on the floor by her boyfriend on 21 February after he left a bar to check up on her, according to officials.
Authorities say that the unnamed boyfriend and a friend carried Cail to a vehicle and drove her to the Myrah Keating-Smith Community Health Center.
“Once at the clinic, CPR was rendered and 911 was notified, however, the female succumbed to her ailment,” police said in a statement. Investigators have now launched a criminal investigation into her death.
Read more:
Family and friends pay tribute following death of former swimming champion Jamie Cail
Cail, 42, died after being found unresponsive on floor of home in US Virgin Islands by boyfriend
Shock death of US swimming champion being probed by authorities
The death of a former swimming champion in the US Virgin Islands is being investigated by authorities after she was found unresponsive by her boyfriend.
Jamie Cail, 42, was found lying on the floor of the house she shared with her boyfriend in the early hours of 21 February.
Read more:
Shock death of US swimming champion being probed by authorities
Boyfriend finds star swimmer Jamie Cail unresponsive inside the home they shared
A celebrated athlete mysteriously died in the Virgin Islands. Here’s everything we know about Jamie Cail’s sudden death
One of the top high school swimmers of the 1990s has been found dead in the US Virgin Islands. Jamie Cail was only 42 years old and the cause of death remains a mystery.
The body of the retired swimming champion was discovered in the home she shared with her boyfriend in St John on 21 February, local police say.
Ms Cail, originally from Claremont, New Hampshire, was part of a relay team that won a gold medal at the 1997 Pan Pacific Championships before she enrolled at the University of Maine and competed as part of its swim team in the 2000/01 academic year, according to ABC News.
She’s being remembered as “one of the best high school swimmers in the country in the 1990s”.
This is everything we know about Jamie Cail:
Everything we know about the death of US swimmer Jamie Cail
Top high school and university athlete found unresponsive by boyfriend at shared residence in US Virgin Islands on 21 February, Gustaf Kilander and Joe Sommerlad report
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