Gabby Logan's heart-breaking tribute 33 years after brother's sudden death
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Gabby Logan has shared a touching tribute to her brother Daniel, who died when the pair were just teenagers, 33 years ago.
In a tribute posted to her Instagram on Saturday, May 25, Gabby said: "It's 33 years. So much has happened, so many huge landmarks passed. I will always acknowledge Daniel's wonderful life. But there is a hole that is never filled, a gap that always needs navigating and that has been the challenge for all of us. A beautiful, painful and brilliant challenge. And that is life. Daniel Aiden Yorath 25.7.76 - 25.5.92."
Daniel died suddenly in 1992 due to an underlying heart condition. He collapsed while playing football with their father Terry Yorath, the former professional Welsh footballer. For our free daily briefing on the biggest issues facing the nation, sign up to the Wales Matters newsletter here
It was later found that Daniel, who had been signed to play for Leeds United just before his death, had undiagnosed hypertrophic cardiomyopathy - a heart disease which affects the heart's ability to pump blood around the body.
Ms Logan told the following to BBC Wales Live in 2022: "He was playing football in the garden with my dad and he fell over.
"My dad thought he just was messing about and went over and rolled him over, and he basically died on the spot - and had no previous indications whatsoever that there were any health problems at all with him.
"It's like a sledgehammer coming down and sending everybody off in different directions, because it's such a catastrophic thing to happen, and no warning - and everybody responds differently."
The former rhythmic gymnast was just 19 when her younger brother, 15-year-old Daniel, died. She told the ainslie + ainslie Performance People podcast in April that she was trying to run from her grief rather than face it and eventually reached a breaking point.
She said: 'I was running around running from my grief probably and then by the end of my first year at university, so just around the time of his first anniversary I had some first year exams and it all kind of came crashing down.
'I'd stopped sleeping properly. I felt very wobbly, I just kind of lost my balance and I went to see a doctor and he gave me some sleeping tablets and I thought 'That's not what I need'.
'Even I knew that's not the answer to what was going on, it was much deeper than that, it was the plaster and my dad had had a lot of problems with sleeping tablets. He said 'Don't take those, that's not a good route'.'
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Gabby was able to forge a successful a career first in athletics and then in broadcasting. It is the latter career that she has begun to speak more about and how it felt to present some of the nation's biggest shows.
Her father Terry, who formerly played for Leeds United and was the Wales football manager, and mother Christine have also campaigned to raise awareness and money for children's heart charities over the years.
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