Olympic triathletes vomit after swimming in Seine

Triathletes Tyler Mislavchuk of Canada and Ekaterina Shabalina of Kazakhstan, who competed at the Paris Olympics, vomited after swimming in the Seine.

According to the Daily Mail, Mislavchuk, who finished ninth in the men’s competition with a time of 1 hour 39 minutes and 41 seconds, admitted that he felt ill several times along the way.

“I didn’t come to the Olympics to just be in the top 10, but I gave it my all. I went for it, I threw up 10 times, but I don’t regret anything.”– said the Canadian athlete.

In turn, Yekaterinburg native Shabalina, who changed her sports citizenship, dropped out of the race due to a sharp deterioration in her health. She told the Sport24 portal about the incident.

“Triathlon is a contact sport, and it’s quite difficult for the judges to track “fights” during the swimming stage. Even though it’s prohibited. After getting hit in the head several times, I choked on water from the Seine, after which I started to feel sick for the rest of the swim. And I threw up after the first lap of the cycling stage.”– the triathlete explained what happened.

After dropping out of the race, she contacted doctors who prescribed her medication. Shabalina also revealed that due to logistical problems in the Olympic Village, she missed training in the pool. In addition, there is no hot water in the block where the Kazakh team lives.

Earlier, American triathlete Seth Ryder said that in order to prepare for the swim in the Seine, he stopped washing his hands after using the toilet – in this way, he tried to increase his threshold of resistance to E. coli.

Let us recall that on July 30, the International Triathlon Union issued an official statement about the postponement of the competition. The reason for the deviation from the schedule of the Games was the pollution of the Seine River, in which the triathletes were supposed to swim. This is despite the fact that the French authorities spent a lot of money on its cleaning.

On the morning of July 31, the first individual triathlon competitions took place. The winner of the women’s tournament was Frenchwoman Cassandra Beaugrand. The gold medal in the men’s tournament was won by Great Britain’s Alex Yee.