Anita Alvarez will have been talked about around the world, but not for her sports performance.
Passed out in the Budapest basin during the World Championships, the American swimmer gave her team a boost and much more… She tells how she experienced her fright.
"I remember that I had the feeling of really having a great performance, my best by far, not only in the way I performed but above all because I was enjoying and living in the moment"
, explains the American athlete on
NBC
.
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“I felt really happy and proud. At the very end, I remember the last arm swing I made. It was such a simple arm movement... But I gave it my all and I remember coming down and being like 'oh, oh, I'm not feeling great'. It's the last thing I remember. »
His coach, Andrea Fuentes, savior for a day, was very scared.
But her swimmer admitted that everything “
was better as soon as I breathed and woke up
,”
she says.
The images, however, were surreal and very impressive.