{"id":593851,"date":"2024-08-02T06:44:48","date_gmt":"2024-08-02T13:44:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/?p=593851"},"modified":"2024-08-07T10:14:37","modified_gmt":"2024-08-07T17:14:37","slug":"slovakias-tamara-potocka-collapses-with-asthma-attack-after-200-im-heat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swimmingworldmagazine.com\/news\/slovakias-tamara-potocka-collapses-with-asthma-attack-after-200-im-heat\/","title":{"rendered":"Slovakia\u2019s Tamara Potocka Collapses with After 200 IM Heat, Recovering Fine"},"content":{"rendered":"

Slovakia\u2019s Tamara Potocka Collapses with After 200 IM Heat, Recovering Fine<\/strong><\/p>\n

Slovakian swimmer Tamara Potocka<\/strong> collapsed after swimming in the preliminary session of the Paris Olympics Friday morning. She has since recovered from the scary moment.<\/p>\n

Potocka swam in Heat 3 of the women\u2019s 200 individual medley<\/a> in Lane 8. She was treated on the deck with supplemental oxygen by medical staff at the Paris La Defense Arena before being taken off the pool deck on a stretcher. It was originally reported by Paris organizers as an asthma attack, but Potocka later hit back at that assessment.<\/p>\n

The Paris 2024 media manager of the venue told Reuters that Potocka<\/a> was conscious and is under medical assessment.<\/p>\n

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“Tamara has asthma. This whole combination of nervous and physical tension while she did not have her inhaler immediately available to use contributed to the creation of this problem,” Slovakia\u2019s delegation leader Ivana Lange<\/strong> said in a statement. \u201cShe received oxygen and necessary medication, her condition is constantly monitored. A few minutes ago, the doctor told me that she must be monitored for several more hours.\u201d<\/p>\n
Potocka responded on social media a day later with a does of self-deprecation at the moment. She dispelled the notion that she has asthma, instead calling it a moment of total exhaustion.<\/p>\n
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