A big drama took place today (Thursday) at the World Championships, after the American artistic swimmer Anita Alvarez, lost consciousness during the solo exercise and drowned.
Her coach jumped into the water and prevented a major disaster.
Now it turns out that this is not the first time the swimmer has drowned in a pool, just a year ago in the criteria competition for the Olympics held in Barcelona, the American also drowned.
After the previous incident the swimmer underwent tests, and the doctors were unable to find anything unusual.
Strange as it may sound, since Alvarez finished the exercise in the free solo final in Budapest, she also scored a score of 87.6333 points and finished in seventh place overall.
For those wondering why it is impossible to see the video from the current competition, it turns out that as soon as the director noticed an underwater event, he switched to rebroadcasting and broadcasting images of the viewers.
Only after the commotion was over did they return to the regular live broadcast of the competition, even though there are underwater video cameras documenting the entire drama in the moment of truth.
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