“Anita is fine, she is in bed resting. After what happened yesterday, all the medical checks gave a favorable result. We were very scared because she was two minutes without breathing. She is determined to compete tomorrow, she says she is in the center for hundred but we have to wait for the doctors’ opinion “: Andrea Fuentes, Spanish coach of the US synchronized swimming team, tells the ‘Mundo Deportivo’, from Budapest, what happened yesterday when the synchronette Anita Alvarez fell ill at the end of her exercise losing the senses in the water. Providential and timely intervention by Fuentes who dived to help her athlete. “I dived and tried to reach her as fast as possible,” she added.
Meanwhile, today the international federation (Fina) announced that it will review the current rules that prevent the intervention of lifeguards without a signal from the referee. In a statement, FINA revealed that assistants hired to work at the swimming world championships can only get into action after the referees’ clearance, which is why Fuentes was faster than them.
“According to the rules, (lifeguards) can only jump into the pool after receiving a signal from the referee corps,” World Health Director Béla Merkely said in the statement who admitted yesterday the referees did not react immediately.
Source: Ansa
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