{"id":1526605,"date":"2022-06-23T11:05:08","date_gmt":"2022-06-23T15:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1526605"},"modified":"2022-06-23T11:05:36","modified_gmt":"2022-06-23T15:05:36","slug":"usa-swimmer-faints-underwater-at-world-championships-her-coach-dives-in-to-rescue-her","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/usa-swimmer-faints-underwater-at-world-championships-her-coach-dives-in-to-rescue-her\/","title":{"rendered":"USA Swimmer Faints Underwater At World Championships. Her Coach Dives In To Rescue Her."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fusa-swimmer-faints-underwater-at-world-championships-her-coach-dives-in-to-rescue-her%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1526605&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The head coach for the USA Artistic Swimming National Team saved the life of a American swimmer by diving in the pool at the World Championships in Budapest.<\/p>\n<p>Andrea Fuentes, 39, a former four-time Olympic medalist in synchronized swimming for Spain, dove in the pool after realizing artistic swimmer Anita Alvarez, 25, had fainted underwater and was \u00a0sinking to the bottom of the pool.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a big scare. I had to jump in because the lifeguards weren\u2019t doing it,\u201d Fuentes said later.<\/p>\n<p>Alvarez was competing in the final of the women\u2019s solo free event; Fuentes and a male lifeguard dragged her out of the pool after she had fallen unconscious.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">As the American artistic swimmer Anita Alvarez fainted and sank toward the bottom of the pool at the world championships, her coach Andrea Fuentes made a split-second decision: She dove in to save her.<\/p>\n<p>Alvarez is doing &#8220;fine&#8221; now, her coach said. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/w5b9w4t1Iz\">https:\/\/t.co\/w5b9w4t1Iz<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/msOBUa3PY7\">pic.twitter.com\/msOBUa3PY7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The New York Times (@nytimes) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nytimes\/status\/1539922635378884610?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 23, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Absolutely incredible images from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/oliscarff?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@oliscarff<\/a> today.<\/p>\n<p>A member of Team USA rescues Anita Alvarez from the bottom of the pool after Alvarez fainted during her solo free artistic swimming routine at the Budapest 2022 World Aquatics Championships <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Tb5pHzcCQ8\">pic.twitter.com\/Tb5pHzcCQ8<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Nathan Howard (@SmileItsNathan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SmileItsNathan\/status\/1539787898060513280?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 23, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fuentes stated that she realized things had gone awry when Alvarez \u201cwent down and didn\u2019t react,\u201d adding, \u201cWhen a swimmer finishes, the first thing they want to do is breathe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fuentes said he gestured to the lifeguards but they didn\u2019t see it, \u201cso I jumped in myself. I went there as fast as I could. I went in even faster than when I was going for Olympic medals,\u201d as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/sportsnews\/article-10944325\/Swimmers-coach-leaps-pool-save-life-FAINTED-water.html\">The Daily Mail<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>Fuentes said Alvarez fully recovered, stating, \u201cWe have looked at many things and the pressure is good. We\u2019ve done a CT scan on his brain, she\u2019s fine. \u2026 It has been, as you know, sometimes we see it happening in sport, cyclists, marathons in athletics vomit many times.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fuentes said Alvarez asked her why she had fainted. \u201cI said, as athletes, we dedicate ourselves to discovering where the limit is and sometimes we find it, and today you have found it, you have gone so far that your body said, girl, don\u2019t ask me anything else,\u201d Fuentes said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn our sport it happens sometimes, when we go without breathing for a long time, with very high pulses and sometimes the oxygen not getting where it has to get, we faint,\u201d she continued.<\/p>\n<p>Alvarez spoke of how difficult synchronized swimming was in 2016, telling the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pe.com\/2016\/07\/12\/riverside-synchronized-swimmers-holding-their-breath-for-the-olympics\/\">Press-Enterprise<\/a>, \u201cWe even have to smile and lift our brows at the same time in the same way. We\u2019re under water half the time with no oxygen, but we have to make it look easy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile keeping time, pairs must keep tabs on each other above and below the water \u2013 a most difficult feat without goggles when everything appears blurred,\u201d The Press Enterprise added.<\/p>\n<p>USA Artistic Swimming issued a <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/team-us-as-anita-alvarez-rescued-by-coach-andrea-fuentes-after-fainting-at-world-championships-125604294.html\">statement<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><em>Watching yesterday\u2019s medical emergency of 2x Olympian Anita Alvarez and subsequent rescue by coach Andrea Fuentes was heartbreaking for our community. She gave an exceptional solo performance and competed brilliantly in four preliminary and three final competitions across six days. Anita has been evaluated by medical staff and will continue to be monitored. She is feeling much better and using today to rest.\u00a0 Whether or not she will swim in the free team final on Friday, June 24th will be determined by Anita and expert medical staff.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This is not the first time Fuentes has rescued Alvarez. Previously, during an Olympics qualifying event in Barcelona, the same thing happened.<\/p>\n<p>In 2010, Olympic medal winner Fran Crippen, 26, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/olympics\/swimming\/news\/story?id=5718372\">died in the 10-kilometer open-water event<\/a> in the United Arab Emirates. Swimming World reported the water temperature was in the mid- to high-80s. \u00a0Crippen failed to arrive at the finish, prompting a search for his body, which was discovered before the last buoy on the course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The head coach for the USA Artistic Swimming National Team saved the life of a American swimmer by diving in the pool at the World Championships in Budapest. Andrea Fuentes, 39, a former four-time Olympic medalist in synchronized swimming for Spain, dove in the pool after realizing artistic swimmer Anita Alvarez, 25, had fainted underwater &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":1526639,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1526605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1526605","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1526605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1526605\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1526639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1526605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1526605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1526605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}