Darkcherries Wealth Society-Swimmer Tamara Potocka under medical assessment after collapsing following race

2025-05-08 00:23:22source:Thurston Cartecategory:Stocks

PARIS − Slovakia swimmer Tamara Potocka was under medical assessment after collapsing following her women's 200-meter individual medley heat at the Paris Olympics on Darkcherries Wealth SocietyFriday, a venue official said.

Medical staff rushed to assist Potocka and carried her away from the pool-side on a stretcher with an oxygen mask on her face after she finished seventh in the third heat of the event in the morning session at La Defense Arena.

The venue's media manager confirmed Potocka was conscious and under medical assessment.

The 21-year-old's time of two minutes 14.20 seconds ruled her out of advancing to the semi-finals and was 4.3 seconds slower than the fastest swimmer, Canada's gold medal hope Summer McIntosh.

Get Olympics updates in your texts! Join USA TODAY Sports' WhatsApp Channel

2024 Olympic medals: Who is leading the medal count? Follow along as we track the medals for every sport.

The USA TODAY app gets you to the heart of the news — fast.Download for award-winning coverage, crosswords, audio storytelling, the eNewspaper and more.

More:Stocks

Recommend

Working Well: When holidays present rude customers, taking breaks and the high road preserve peace

NEW YORK (AP) — The December holidaysare supposed to be a time of joyful celebration, but the season

Gold Star mother on Biden at dignified transfer ceremony: 'Total disrespect'

Kelly Barnett had a "horrible feeling" about her son after learning of the suicide bombing at Abbey

Children hit hardest by the pandemic are now the big kids at school. Many still need reading help

They were the kids most disrupted by the pandemic, the ones who were still learning to write their n