Olympics: Dawn Fraser has revealed, seven members of Australia's swim team, contracted COVID while competing during the Paris Games.
Australia ’s performance in the Paris pool may be even more brilliant than it first appeared after swimming legend Dawn Fraser made the stunning claim up to “half” of the squad may have battled Covid during the Games.
Breaststroker Zac Stubblety-Cook revealed he contracted Covid before winning silver while freestyler Lani Pallister and rising star Ella Ramsay were others who fell ill and had to withdraw from events.“It has been absolutely fantastic, you know, because half of our swimmers got COVID and it wasn’t known to the media and a lot of them swam well because they had it and some didn’t,” Fraser told Johns.
Fraser singled out praise for McKeown who may have also been ill despite a herculean effort that included winning the 200m backstroke final, then backing up in the semis of the 200m individual medley, an event in which she eventually won bronze.
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