Underwater camera images show the swimmer's coach gliding through the water toward her without anyone else around.
USA Artistic Swimming team member Anita Alvarez, left, hangs motionless in the water after fainting at the end of her solo routine at the World Aquatic Championships in Budapest, Hungary, June 22, 2022, as her coach Andrea Fuentes swims to the rescue.A member of the USA Artistic Swimming team was rescued by her coach after fainting near the end of her routine at the World Aquatics Championships in Budapest, Hungary on Wednesday.
USA Artistic Swimming team member Anita Alvarez is pulled toward the surface by her coach Andrea Fuentes after fainting at the end of her solo routine at the World Aquatic Championships in Budapest, Hungary, June 22, 2022.The head coach jumped into the water quickly after seeing Alvarez sink to the bottom at the end of her solo routine. The underwater camera images show Fuentes gliding through the water toward Alvarez without anyone else around.
Soon others helped Fuentes pull the still-unconscious Alvarez onto the side of the pool, where she was given immediate medical attention before being carried out on a stretcher. Anita Alvarez of the USA Artistic Swimming team is taken on a stretcher from the pool after collapsing during the solo free final at the 19th FINA World Aquatic Championships in Budapest, Hungary, June 22, 2022."Anita is ok and the doctors also said she is fine," Fuentes said in the Instagram post."We all know it happens in other sports: cycling, marathon, track and field… some don't make it to the final line and some even finish crawling or passing out.
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