Alvarez fainted and coach Fuentes went into the water to rescue him.
When everyone joked that lifeguards in swimming competitions were the most non-existent professions, there was a terrifying scene in the synchronized swimming arena of the 2022 World Championships.
On June 23, according to the Guardian, American Anita Alvarez lost consciousness after completing the action and suddenly sank to the bottom of the water.
Fortunately, Alvarez's coach Fuentes quickly realized the problem, and the coach jumped directly into the pool to rescue him, and another man also jumped into the pool, and the two pulled Alvarez out of the water.
The U.S. team then issued a statement saying that Alvarez was not in serious trouble, coach Fuentes said: "She is fine, the doctor has examined her body thoroughly, whether it is heart rate, blood sugar level or blood pressure everything is normal." ”
It was reportedly Alvarez's third time in the World Swimming Championships, but it wasn't the first time she'd been in a coma in a pool.
Alvarez was taken to hospital.
Alvarez had a similar problem at last year's Olympic qualifiers in Barcelona, when coach Fuentes was the first to jump into the pool to save her.
For the world championship jumped into the water to rescue, Fuentes expressed dissatisfaction with the slow response of the lifeguards at the scene in an interview afterwards.
"When I saw the team members sinking, I saw the rescuers, and their expressions were stunned. I think the players didn't breathe for at least two minutes because the lungs were full of water. ”
"We took her to a safe place and she spat out the water and then coughed, that's it, but it was really scary."
Fuentes, who won Olympic medals for Spain, said she jumped into the water to rescue her because the lifeguards did not respond.
"I shouted at the lifeguards to make them jump, but they didn't jump, there was no response. I saw no one to save me, so I jumped down as fast as I could and swam towards Alvarez. ”
"I've never swam so fast in my life, even when I got an Olympic medal."
(Source: Xinhua News Agency)
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