Health stalls Olympian's swim to fund research

Health stalls Olympian's swim to fund research Wearing an orange-and-black wetsuit and swimming a slow freestyle, the 37-year-old swimmer became cheered on with the aid of lots of supporters lining river banks over the weekend. Tractors drove along him at night to light up the water, and he become hoisted over canal locks by cranes. He became attempting to swim alongside canals and rivers linking 11 cities in the northern province of Friesland which might be used for a speedskating race within the years while cold winters freeze the complete path. The closing such race was in 1997. Supporters not able to get to Friesland observed his development on a stay flow by way of national broadcaster NOS. Yet in a post on his respectable website, van der Weijden's group wrote Monday that a health practitioner who checked him considered it 'irresponsible' to preserve. The swimmer turned into stricken by an imbalance of salt and changed into unable to keep down any medicine due to nausea, according to his website. He became taken by ambulance to a medical institution for checks. 'It is a big disappointment,' van der Weijden's coach, Marcel van der Togt, told NOS. He stated the swimmer fell asleep within the water and became sick whilst he become placed on a floating bed to relaxation. Dailyhunt https://anotepad.com/notes/xcdwh9

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