MIAMI — The loss of life of Konstantin Koltsov, the Belarusian former professional hockey participant and boyfriend {of professional} tennis participant Aryna Sabalenka, has been dominated an obvious suicide, the Miami-Dade Police Division stated Tuesday. Koltsov was 42.
Police stated in a press release despatched to Reuters that Bal Harbour Police and Hearth Rescue had responded to a name at 12:39 a.m. Monday at St. Regis Bal Harbour Resort about reviews of a person leaping off a balcony.
“No foul play is suspected,” the Miami-Dade Police Division stated in a press release, including that the murder bureau has taken over the investigation.
Koltsov was a ahead with the Belarus nationwide workforce within the 2002 and 2010 Olympics and performed 144 video games over elements of three seasons with the NHL’s Pittsburgh Penguins from 2002 and 2006. The 1999 first-round draft decide had 12 targets and 26 assists with the Penguins.
His loss of life was confirmed by Russian membership Salavat Yulaev Ufa, the place he was an assistant coach for the previous two seasons. He additionally was an assistant on employees for the boys’s nationwide workforce.
“Konstantin was one of many undisputable leaders of our workforce, a gifted progressive coach, a shiny participant,” nationwide workforce coach Dmitry Baskov stated in a press release. “He was an instance of durability, exhausting work, dedication and an idol for a lot of Belarusian boys and his colleagues. It is exhausting and unfair when such folks depart so early.”
Koltsov performed most of his profession within the Russian Superleague, which morphed into the KHL, ending with Dynamo Minsk in 2015-16 and going into teaching. Koltsov gained a Gagarin Cup championship with Salavat Yulaev Ufa as a participant in 2010-11.
“He was a powerful and cheerful particular person, he was beloved and revered by gamers, colleagues, and followers,” the workforce stated in a press release. “[Koltsov] eternally wrote himself into the historical past of our membership.”
Sabalenka, the world’s No. 2 girls’s tennis participant and Australian Open champion, is in Miami for the Miami Open — a girls’s WTA occasion. In accordance with media reviews, she shouldn’t be withdrawing from the occasion, which begins Tuesday.
Messages despatched to Sabalenka’s publicist and event officers looking for remark weren’t instantly returned to The Related Press.
Sabalenka was working towards Tuesday whereas carrying all black. She has a first-round bye and is scheduled to play both Romanian wild card Simona Halep, who’s coming back from a doping ban, or Spain’s Paula Badosa on Friday.
There will probably be no information conferences following her matches.
Reuters, The Related Press and ESPN’s D’Arcy Maine contributed to this report.