The five-time Olympian Daniela Larreal Chirinos was discovered lifeless inside her Las Vegas condominium after the retired bike owner choked to demise on her meals, police have mentioned.
The 50-year-old’s physique was discovered after she failed to indicate up on the resort in Las Vegas the place she labored and was checked on, Fox Sports activities reported.
Larreal was one in all Venezuela’s best-known athletes, having competed in pace biking in the summertime video games of Barcelona in 1992, Atlanta in 1996, Sydney in 2000, Athens in 2004 and London in 2012.
Although she by no means medalled on the Olympics, she did win a pair of golds on the Central American and Caribbean Video games in San Salvador in 2002. And, a 12 months later, she gained two silver medals on the Pan American Video games in Santo Domingo.
Larreal was lively in Venezuelan politics. She was a troublesome critic of strongman ruler Hugo Chávez, accusing the late president – alongside together with his sports activities minister Hector Rodriguez – of funneling cash out of Venezuela by means of the sponsorship of a non-existent racing driver.
When Nicolás Maduro got here to energy in 2013, she referred to as the presidency a dictatorship and was subsequently compelled into exile and banned from getting into Venezuela. Larreal in later years lived in Miami, the place she labored as an Uber driver, earlier than shifting to Las Vegas to work as a meals server.
However Larreal was declared lacking on 12 August after failing to show up for work. She was discovered lifeless at her condominium 4 days later.
The native medical expert was nonetheless inspecting the “trigger and methodology” of her demise as of Tuesday. However police reportedly noticed strong meals stays in her windpipe, main them to suspect she had died from asphyxiation.
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