Former international basketball player Ludovic Vaty, who had to interrupt his high-level career in 2013 due to a cardiovascular disease, is in a coma after a heart attack on Tuesday, we learned Thursday from his amateur club, the TOAC Toulouse (N2, 4th div.). “Tuesday, in training, Ludovic fell devastated by a heart attack,” a club leader told AFP, who requested anonymity. Firefighters then transferred him to hospital, where he was put on respiratory and cardiac support, he added.
In 2021, “Ludovic came to join us for an” amateur project with “the intention of attracting young people and bringing them to the top level”, he said again. Former interior of Gravelines, Ludovic Vaty had been stopped in full ascent, being forced to stop his career as a high-level basketball player at the age of 24 due to a heart condition. He had previously had nine selections with the France team in 2012 and was then coming out of his most successful season with Gravelines (11 points and 6.3 rebounds on average).
The Guadeloupian, also passed by Pau-Orthez and Orléans, had been elected best player of the Leaders Cup in February 2013. At the end of the contract in Gravelines, Vaty, much in demand by clubs in France and abroad, had seen detecting his problem during a medical “check up”. The announcement of his serious heart attack aroused many reactions in the middle of French basketball. “Big thought for Ludovic Vaty, his family and loved ones,” wrote on X (formerly Twitter) one of the current stars of the Blues, Rudy Gobert, who plays in the NBA with the Minnesota Timberwolves.
