Silver medalist crew United States pose after the ladies’s 4×100-meter freestyle last on the World Aquatics Championships in Singapore on Sunday.
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USA Swimming crew members are recovering from acute gastroenteritis as they compete within the World Aquatics Championships in Singapore, a spokesperson for the crew instructed NPR on Sunday.
The crew’s medical employees has been “treating those experiencing symptoms and advising the team on further preventative and recovery measures,” Nikki Warner, senior communications director for USA Swimming, mentioned. Warner didn’t say which swimmers have been impacted or how they contracted the virus.
Acute gastroenteritis, typically referred to as a abdomen bug, is an sickness that may result in diarrhea, nausea, abdomen ache and vomiting, in line with the Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention. It may well be brought on by viruses such because the norovirus, micro organism akin to E. coli, parasites together with giardia, and sure medicines or toxins.
The norovirus alone causes 685 million instances of acute gastroenteritis worldwide annually, the CDC additionally says. Traveler’s diarrhea, a typical type of acute gastroenteritis, can happen from contaminated meals or water. Some instances of acute gastroenteritis are handled with IV fluids and drugs together with antibiotics. It’s unknown what sort of gastroenteritis USA swim crew members are recovering from.
Some crew members missed occasions over the weekend. Torri Huske, 22 years outdated and an Olympic gold medalist, didn’t compete within the ladies’s 100m butterfly warmth on Sunday to “prioritize her efforts in the 4x100m freestyle relay,” USA Swimming mentioned on social media late Saturday. Claire Weinstein, 18 years outdated and likewise an Olympian, didn’t race within the ladies’s 400m freestyle.
Huske, together with fellow crew members Kate Douglass, Erin Gemmell and Simone Manuel, gained the silver medal within the ladies’s 4x100m freestyle relay on Sunday.
“It means a lot,” Manuel mentioned in a press release on successful the medal. “I think the team has definitely had to be adaptable and resilient, and for us to still post a solid time and put together really good splits is something that we can be really proud of, given the circumstances we have had to deal with.”
USA Swimming members Patrick Sammon, Jack Alexy, Jonny Kulow and Chris Guiliano additionally positioned within the males’s 4x100m freestyle relay class, successful a bronze medal. And Katie Ledecky gained the bronze medal within the ladies’s 400m freestyle race.
The USA swim crew is “planning to race and perform to the best of our ability for the rest of the meet,” Warner additionally mentioned.
The World Aquatics Championships continues via Aug. 3.
