John Coughlin, an American pairs figure skating champion, died at 33 in Kansas City, Mo., on Friday, one day after he had been suspended from the sport. “My wonderful, strong, amazingly compassionate brother John Coughlin took his own life earlier today,” his sister, Angela Laune, wrote in a Facebook post on Friday night. The police in Kansas City, Coughlin’s hometown, did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Saturday, but USA Today reported that officers had been dispatched to respond to a suicide on Friday night. “I’m just saddened that he felt that this was the only option left for him,” his coach, Dalilah Sappenfield, said in an interview on Saturday, adding that “he was always a skater who did more than what he thought he was capable of.”

Source: New York Times January 20, 2019 00:45 UTC