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Wednesday, November 6
Brazilian Olympic diver Ian Matos passes away at 32 years of age
The Olympic diver Ian Matos , who was part of the Brazilian team that played the Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games 2016, died this Tuesday at the 32 years old victim of an infection reported sports sources.
The Brazilian Olympic Committee (COB) reported the death of the athlete in a message on Twitter in which he expressed his “Deep regret” for the “premature death of the Olympic jumper” and thanked the swimmer “for his contribution to the evolution of the modality.”
Matos was hospitalized since the past 30 in October at a hospital in Ilha Governador , in the city of Rio de Janeiro, who arrived with a throat infection, but the bacteria lodged in the esophagus and the clinical condition evolved into a pulmonary complication that aggravated the eve.
Big loses for ornamental jumps and for LGBT representativeness not sports. 😢
Faleceu hoje or Olympic athlete Ian Matos. Ian was from Paraná, studied pedagogy at UNB and was proud to be openly gay.
My sentiments to family and friends! pic.twitter.com/sL7r7Un836
– Fábio Felix 🏳️🌈 (@fabiofelixdf) December 12, 2021
The athlete born in the city of Muaná, in the Amazon and northern state of Pará, played Pan American and World Championships in the junior and senior categories defended Brazil in the South American Games (2010 and 2014) and in the Pan American Games in Guadalajara (2011), Toronto (2015) and Lima (2019) .
Similarly, Matos competed in the Kazan Water Sports World Cups (Russia, 2014) and Budapest (Hungary, 2017 ), as well as in the Olympic Games and the Swimming World Cup held in Rio de Janeiro in 2016.