Sweden’s Victor Johansson is not going to race within the males’s open water 10km that’s scheduled for tomorrow, August ninth. Johansson was beneficial by the Swedish medical employees to not swim within the occasion and adopted that recommendation.
“After now we have weighed their suggestion with all of the dangers that exist, it felt like the perfect resolution is to drop out. Subsequently, it has now been determined that I cannot swim,” Johansson mentioned to the Swedish outlet Dagens Nyheter. “There may be numerous data that has been flying round, however what we all know for positive is that folks have develop into ailing. So although the degrees (intestinal micro organism e-coli) have gone down, it didn’t really feel good to start out,” he continued.
Johansson was one among 22 males scheduled to swim within the race tomorrow morning. He additionally was the one man from Sweden to be within the race.
“After cautious consideration of all of the components surrounding Victor, my suggestion is that he shouldn’t swim within the Seine because it stands now. Well being is all the time most essential,” says Swedish physician Lykke Tamm.
Johansson is coming off of swimming in three pool occasions, the 400, 800, and 1500 freestyles. He completed sixteenth within the 800, seventeenth within the 1500, and 18th within the 400.
The lads’s 10km race is the ultimate occasion scheduled to swim within the Seine. The person triathlon competitors befell final Wednesday for each the women and men after the boys’s race was postponed attributable to poor water high quality. Days after the ladies’s race, Belgium’s Claire Michel was hospitalized due to E. Coli.
The Seine River had excessive ranges of air pollution main as much as the triathlon occasions as coaching classes had been canceled the Sunday and Monday earlier than the race. Open water athletes had a coaching session canceled on Tuesday due to poor water high quality. E. Coli ranges have been excessive within the Seine River, together with 10x too excessive simply over a month earlier than the Olympics started.
The ladies’s open water race befell this morning as scheduled. Notably, the open water 10km race is for much longer than the swimming portion of the triathlon race as that was just one.5km.
Though Johansson is out of the race, Austria’s Felix Auboeck has introduced he can be within the 10km tomorrow. Auboeck swam the boys’s 400 free final however didn’t advance to finals. He then no confirmed the 200 free however returned for the 800 free.
Aubeock posted to his Instagram, “Didn’t go as deliberate at my foremost occasions attributable to sickness, however now I’m again and more healthy than ever! 💪 Feeling additional motivated and pumped for tomorrow’s 10K race!”
