The Piraeus Forensic Service is awaiting the laboratory results in order to draw firm conclusions about the mechanism that caused the severe brain injury to the right side of the cranium and brain of the late 16-year-old boxing champion Vassilis Topalos in the prime of his life and with a widely professed , promising sports career.

The assessment so far is that the injury is compatible with a fall onto a hard surface, however this will be definitively determined by the laboratory analysis and its results in the coming days for the coroner to complete his report.

Of course, it remains to be seen whether there was a combination of events, i.e. an injury that day or an earlier one, that led to the athlete being unwell and then falling in the dressing room.

Police are also investigating whether there was, in fact, an order from the national coaches for all athletes to slow down and abstain from training matches during the specific time period given the champion engaged in this type of training on the fateful day and days before.

Regarding the choice of the 18-year-old fellow athlete with whom the 16-year-old champion trained, the feeling gained by the officials of the Attica Security Sub-Directorate for Combating Violence in Sports Venues is primarily because they had no intention harming him or others, and that the 10kg difference they had in both years was made up by the champion’s athletic condition and experience.

The same athlete’s father, who accompanied him in all his training sessions, insisted every time, as he did that day, that both his son and his fellow athlete wear the excellent protective equipment that he had provided himself, such as helmets, special gloves, etc. ., which was superior to the gym, so that both the champion and any other athlete would have a training match with him as safely as possible, as it was.

On Wednesday night, the gym owner was again called to security to testify to report other witnesses present that day in case anyone noticed anything that witnesses who have already testified failed to notice.

Although the investigation to determine if there is anything amiss in this case is ongoing and will only be completed after the coroner’s report and the remaining additional testimonies, the general opinion of the police officers investigating the case so far is no evidence of any sort of intent , to Start with it.

There is a general sense of … “bad timing,” but the investigation is ongoing to determine if there was any type of negligence in making important decisions for the athlete, who was an otherwise healthy child who lost so unfairly and so early in life .

Source: NEWS24/7