Jamie Cail, a retired American athlete, died from fentanyl intoxication with aspiration of gastric content material at her residence within the U.S. Virgin Islands, police stated Friday.
Cail’s boyfriend left an area bar on Feb. 21 to test on the previous aggressive swimmer and located her on the ground of their residence, officers stated. He and a good friend bought her right into a car and took her to the Myrah Keating-Smith Clinic, the place she was pronounced useless.
The Medical Examiner’s Workplace decided Cail’s method of dying was unintentional, police stated.
Two milligrams of fentanyl will be deadly relying on an individual’s physique dimension, tolerance and previous utilization, in line with the Drug Enforcement Administration. The artificial opioid is 50 occasions extra highly effective than heroin.
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Earlier than her dying, Cail lived on St. John and labored at an area espresso store, her household instructed WMUR. She was initially from Claremont, New Hampshire.
Cail began to swim competitively throughout her childhood, her household instructed the station. Records present she competed in freestyle and butterfly races, in addition to medleys, whereas swimming for the U.S. on the Pan Pacific Championships and the FINA Swimming World Cup within the late Nineteen Nineties.
She received gold on the Pan Pacific Championships and a silver medal on the Swimming World Cup, in line with FINA, the swimming federation now often called World Aquatics, which is acknowledged by the Worldwide Olympic Committee for administering worldwide competitions for water sports activities.
Cail was additionally a member of the ladies’s swim crew on the College of Maine through the 2000-2001 educational 12 months, in line with the college’s alumni association.
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