Australia's Olympic swimming team were battling COVID-19 from the start of the Paris Games, threatening to knock out a number of its high-profile stars.
It is a miracle Australia 's Olympic swimming team were able to win seven gold, eight silver and three bronze medals, after Olympic great Dawn Fraser revealed the health horror inside the athletes' village. Australia 's Olympic swimming team were battling COVID -19 from the start of the Paris Games, threatening to knock out a number of its high-profile stars.
Fellow Aussie swimmer Zac Stubblety-Cook revealed after he won silver in the 200m breaststroke he competed with an infection, after a five-day course of antivirals. "It has been absolutely fantastic because half of our swimmers got COVID," she revealed to former NRL player Matty Johns on the Matty and the Missile podcast.The four-time gold medallist said Pallister struggled in her 800m freestyle final - where Titmus won silver with a personal best - as she was"still getting over it".
Fraser also revealed on the podcast the cardboard beds the infected athletes were sleeping on had to be thrown out as a precaution. "It's pure physicality, it's so dependent on your lungs which we know COVID affects. These girls are machines. You can't underestimate them," he said on the podcast.Australian swim coach Dean Boxall wearing a face mask. Picture: Quinn Rooney/Getty Images
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