Fox Sports News has revealed seven members of the Australian swimming team had COVID during their Paris campaign.
Australian swimming legend Dawn Fraser revealed on a podcast this week that at least seven swimmers on the Australian team tested positive for COVID-19 during the first week of the Olympic Games, which was kept under wraps by Australian officials.
Five of Australia’s women’s water polo athletes also tested positive to COVID prior to the Olympic Opening Ceremony.
Swimming officials say that swimmers were isolated in the Athletes’ Village but not in external hotels.
“I really take my hat off to some of those young people because they really got 1000 per cent. Because I knew some of them had covid and it was spreading around the village like that. “They had to move some of our swimmers out and get rid of the paper bed … just crazy.”
