However, that wouldn’t be a plan that would be likely to work.įirstly, you would have to know when the poisoning would take effect. In the “crime betting syndicate” scenario you might picture criminals poisoning Taylor and then betting against her, knowing that she would be less than 100%. In my view, “an organized crime betting syndicate” would be unlikely to poison an athlete for a couple different reasons. However, I think the latter is more plausible than the former. Mirror, another British news source, states that “Police are reportedly investigating whether Taylor could have been targeted by an organized crime betting syndicate or a rival player or coach.” The police could be on a couple of wild-goose chases with those two angles. Humans become infected through direct contact with the urine of infected animals or with a urine-contaminated environment.” The health authority also lists several risk factors, including occupations where animal handling is common or living in a region where flooding has taken place.Ī BBC article mentions “rat urine” as a medium that the disease can be transmitted through and notes that Taylor’s diagnosis was for a “rare strain” of the disease. The World Health Organization provides the following description of that disease: “ Leptospirosis is a bacterial disease that affects both humans and animals. After spending days in the hospital and coming face-to-face with her mortality, the young athlete’s diagnosis ended up being leptospirosis.

After she had pulled out of the match, she was taken to a local hospital to have her illness diagnosed and treated.

Taylor made the quarterfinal of the juniors’ event, a match that she lost via a mid-match retirement due to illness. Authorities in England are investigating whether Gabriella Taylor, a British player that was active in the Junior Girl’s tournament, was poisoned. Wimbledon 2016 ended about a month ago, however, there’s still some news, bizarre as it may seem, coming out of England regarding the tournament.

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