Eya Guezguez, a 17-calendar year-previous Tunisian Olympian, was killed in a boating incident over the weekend.
Olympic sailors Eya and her twin sister, Sarra, ended up teaching with their national workforce on Sunday when the boat they have been in capsized in superior winds. Sarra was rescued, but Eya did not survive.
“I am shocked by the news of sailor Eya Guezguez’s death. She was an inspiring expertise and part model for her athletes’ generation,” Intercontinental Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach in a assertion on the IOC’s site. “Eya Guezguez’s participation at Tokyo 2020 alongside her twin sister Sarra will continue to encourage girls everywhere you go. Our thoughts are with her loved ones, friends and the Olympic local community in Tunisia.”
The sisters completed 21st in the 49er Fx course at past year’s Tokyo Video games and at age 16, were the youngest Olympians to represent the North African place. They had been also the youngest sailors to contend in Tokyo.
The accident took position off the coast of the country’s cash, Tunis, in accordance to Tunisian Olympic Committee president Mehrez Boussayan. Eya was reportedly training for approaching global and regional competitions.
The BBC also documented that Boussayan reported the girls’ coach, who was touring along with in a speedboat, aided untangle Sarra from the boat’s rigging after it experienced capsized. He then situated her sister in the water and experimented with to revive her utilizing CPR but was unsuccessful.
She was pronounced dead by drowning at a area medical center, for each the report.
The Tunisian Olympic Committee produced a assertion, stating: “May God have mercy on the deceased, grant her everlasting relaxation in paradise, and grant her household and family members and the total sports spouse and children a attractive patience and solace.”
An investigation into the incident is under way, according to a report.
— With Post wires
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