MADRID, 23 Jun. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The American swimmer Anita Álvarez is “well” after having fainted in the water at the end of her exercise in the preliminary round of the World Cup being held in Budapest, according to her coach, the Spanish Andrea Fuentes.
“On another occasion I also had to help her, but it wasn’t that serious. Today she hasn’t breathed for two minutes,” Fuentes told Cadena Cope’s ‘El Partidazo’. “When a swimmer finishes the first thing she does is breathe, she sank and no one reacted, so I jumped in,” he explained.
The American swimmer began to faint in the water and Fuentes had to launch herself out of the pool, helped by a championship assistant. “The doctors insist that everything is fine (…) Athletes put the body to the limit, it has discovered today where its limit is,” she commented.
“I don’t believe it. It was tremendous, Anita wasn’t breathing. I tried to wake her up by slapping her and opening her jaw,” said Andrea Fuentes. The American finished the test in seventh position with a score of 87.6333, just behind the Spanish Iris Tió, who finished sixth.