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SAO PAULO Autopsy report: Boxer Gatti may have committed suicide
An autopsy indicates former boxing champion Arturo Gatti may have committed suicide or been accidentally killed or murdered, according to a Brazilian newspaper that said it obtained a copy of the coroner's initial findings.
Police have said they are certain Gatti's 23-year-old wife strangled the boxer with her purse strap as he drunkenly slept July 11, but the autopsy report raises some doubts.
Gatti was found dead in the apartment he was renting with wife Amanda Rodrigues in the Brazilian seaside resort of Porto de Galinhas in the northeastern state of Pernambuco.
In the state capital of Recife, the Jornal do Comercio newspaper reported Saturday that the autopsy findings it obtained stated Gatti's body was “suspended and hanged, indicating he may have committed suicide.”
The autopsy report, according to the newspaper, also said that “murder or accidental death” could not be ruled out. There was no explanation for “accidental death.” Associated Press
Softball
In Oklahoma City, Natasha Watley hit a grand slam and Andrea Duran and Jenae Leles also homered as the U.S. beat Canada 15-0 at the World Cup of Softball on Saturday for the Americans' most lopsided victory ever against its northern rival.
Duran and Leles each hit three-run home runs as the Americans (3-0) warmed up for a rematch later in the day against Japan, which beat the U.S. 3-1 in the gold medal game at last summer's Beijing Olympics.
Wrestling
Olympic medalists Sara McMann, Patricia Miranda and Randi Miller, three of the most decorated U.S. female wrestlers, filed a grievance with the sport's national governing body, claiming gender discrimination and abusive behavior by national team coaches that led to a mass exodus from the Olympic Training Center.
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