‘People Who Pretend To Be Happy Have Some Of The Saddest Souls’: Sister Of 2016 Olympic Gold Medallist, Tori Bowie Mourns Her Death

The sister of Tori Bowie has reacted to the news of her tragic death. The 2016 Olympic athlete medallist was found dead at her home in Winter Garden on Tuesday. She was aged 32 years old.

Bowie, a track and field star won three Olympic gold in Rio de Janeiro in 2016. The cause of her death is unknown.

Her death was announced on May 3, 2023, via her management company and U.S. Track and Field.

According to the Orange County Sheriff’s Office in Orlando, Florida, deputies called to a home in the region Tuesday afternoon “for a well-being check of a woman in her 30s who had not been seen or heard from in several days.”

She was found at 1pm after someone called to request a welfare check at her home. No foul play is suspected, but her cause of death remains unconfirmed.

On social media, her grieving sister, Tamarra Bowie hinted at mental health problems.

‘People who pretend to be happy have some of the saddest souls and people who do not try to convince the world that they are happy have the most genuine souls, because they are content with just being them for them and nobody else,’ she said in a Facebook post.

Bowie grew up in Sand Hill, Mississippi. Her mother dropped her and her sister off at foster care when she was an infant, but their biological grandmother later adopted them.

She attended Pisgah High School and began competing as a track athlete. Bowie was a track and field star who sprinted to glory in the 2016 Olympics.

She last competed on the world stage in 2019, at the Qatar World Championships, but spent the last four years living quietly in Florida.