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Sam Ruddock from Rugby in Warwickshire, who has competed in shot putt, cycling and sprinting, had travelled to the United States to watch a WrestleMania event and was last heard from on 16 April.

Mr Ruddock was "very active on social media", she said, so when all contact stopped on 16 April, she said "it started to raise flags".

His mother, Fran Ruddock from Lincoln, said he normally spoke to her every day and was usually "very sociable".

Ruddock, however, had other problems.

As Wales revelled in the glow of a rugby renaissance, little could we have imagined Ruddock would depart just 11 months later amid a contract row, as Welsh rugby fortunes resumed their habit of rising and falling like the geography of the land itself.