Mandiner.hu wrote with reference to Nemzeti Sport.
The organizers of the Paris Games, which became memorable due to the multitude of scandals, were widely criticized for insisting that the number of swimmers in the triathlon competitions and the open water swimming be organized in a river with, to put it mildly, "inappropriate water quality".
This had consequences - one of the triathlon competitors vomited at least ten times after swimming, and the fifth-place Hungarian swimmer, Bettina Fábián , who saw "finger-sized brown pieces" in the water while swimming, despite disinfecting herself with brandy at the end of the race, ended up in hospital .
Just like many other swimmers after the competitions , but the French, of course, deny that these cases have anything to do with the water quality of the Seine.
In any case, Bettina Fábián and her lover, bronze medalist Dávid Betlehem, experienced the effect of the Sejna's water up close. The swimmer told Nemzeti Sport what happened to her: "First my mood worsened, then the vomiting came, it was unbearable, that's why I went to the hospital, because nothing, so the medicine didn't stay in me. At the same time, I also developed a fever, which I didn't manage to bring down either. Thanks to the infusion, I got a little better, the doctors thought I could fly home, and I felt the same way."
But it didn't turn out that way, Bettina Fábián's condition worsened and she ended up leaving Liszt Ferenc Airport in a wheelchair.
"I was on the verge of fainting, I can't really tell you what I felt, then I went to the hospital again, luckily thanks to the infusion and the drugs I got over it in a day, and now I'm in a bad mood"
- said our Olympic fifth place swimmer.
But his beloved, Betlehem Dávid, didn't get away with much less either. This is how our Olympic bronze medalist narrated what happened:
"It was in the deck that the same thing would happen to me as it did to Betti, since we swam the day after the girls' competition, by then the quality of the Sejna had not really improved. I trusted him to get away. The whole picture includes the fact that I caught a virus before the Olympics, my body was weakened, and before I left for Paris, the abdominal ultrasound also showed that my intestines were still somewhat inflamed. Then we came home, and although I felt a little tired, I thought everything would be fine if I slept a lot.
Vomiting and diarrhea followed, but I was better by the third day. I started home, to Zalaegerszeg, and the stabbing sensation came again, but then my chest was tight, I could hardly breathe, I couldn't even drive properly. I was thirty-five minutes from our home, I called an ambulance because I found this to be the best solution.
My poor father was called by one of his clients that he saw my car on the side of the road and saw the ambulances. That's how they found out they were taking me to the hospital."
Cover image: Zsolt Czeglédi / MTI
