The five-time Olympic champion gymnast, Athlete of the Nation, contracted pneumonia and is currently being treated in hospital.

Ágnes Keleti was transported from her home in the capital to the Budapest Military Hospital on Wednesday with heart failure and breathing difficulties, Nemzeti Sport learned from a source close to the family.

The condition of the world's oldest Olympic champion, the 103-year-old Holocaust survivor, Israeli and Hungarian citizen Ágnes Keleti, is critical, her family is grateful to those concerned about the five-time Olympic champion, three-time Olympic silver and two-time bronze medalist, world-famous athlete, for the prayers said for her.

Index spoke to the son of the five-time Olympic champion gymnast early Friday evening, who reported that his mother, who was taken to the hospital due to pneumonia, is doing better, "she was already smiling."

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Cover image: The world's oldest Olympian was hospitalized
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