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 Olympic Judo Silver Medalist Claudia Heill Falls To Her Death

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Primetyme199
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PostSubject: Olympic Judo Silver Medalist Claudia Heill Falls To Her Death   Olympic Judo Silver Medalist Claudia Heill Falls To Her Death EmptyThu Mar 31, 2011 9:01 pm

A tragedy inside and outside the Judo community. Most news outlets are running with the Associated Press release stating suicide such as USA Today, though BBC News have treated it more delicately:

Austrian Olympic judo silver medallist Claudia Heill has died after falling from a sixth-floor window in Vienna.

Her body was found in the early hours of Thursday. Police said no suicide note had been found but there were no signs of suspicious circumstances.

Ms Heill, 29, retired from judo in 2009, five years after winning silver in the women's under-63kg category at the Athens Olympics.

She finished fifth in the Beijing games and had been working as a junior coach.
'Irrational action'

Austrian Judo Federation president Hans Paul Kutschera said that everyone who knew her was in shock.

"Claudia was successful in her studies, she was a very active person," he told Austrian TV.

She had been involved in marketing for the European Judo Championships in Vienna in 2010 and had recently been studying at the University of Applied Sciences at Wiener Neustadt, reports said.

Ms Heill's former trainer Hubert Rohrauer was quoted as saying that he could find no explanation for what happened.

"We met up only the evening before," he said. "Nobody could have predicted such an irrational action. She was a perfectionist and strong-willed."
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PostSubject: Re: Olympic Judo Silver Medalist Claudia Heill Falls To Her Death   Olympic Judo Silver Medalist Claudia Heill Falls To Her Death EmptyThu Mar 31, 2011 9:18 pm

This may be in poor taste and that is not my intention but it would be interesting to see if there's data on the success rates for suicide jumpers based on which floor they jump from. If someone really wanted to go, you would think they would try for something higher than the sixth floor.
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PostSubject: Re: Olympic Judo Silver Medalist Claudia Heill Falls To Her Death   Olympic Judo Silver Medalist Claudia Heill Falls To Her Death EmptyThu Mar 31, 2011 9:19 pm

I think the 6th can get it done with a high rate of success. People that jump from the 2nd or 3rd probably live most of the time.
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PostSubject: Re: Olympic Judo Silver Medalist Claudia Heill Falls To Her Death   Olympic Judo Silver Medalist Claudia Heill Falls To Her Death EmptyThu Mar 31, 2011 10:47 pm

This story smells fishy. Me thinks a murder case is coming from this.
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