Fitness & Wellness

Olympic champ says he had collapsed lung before Athens

Published in Health and Medicine Week, November 22nd, 2004

Grant Hackett successfully defended his title in the 1,500-meter freestyle at the Athens Olympics while recovering from a collapsed lung, and did not inform the Australian team's medical staff of his condition.

"My lungs were so blocked and stuffed for so long that it was partially deflated and there was fluid in there, it was fairly serious," the star swimmer said on Australian TV.

"It was thought once it cleared up there could be scar tissue on the lungs, but I had a CAT scan about 2 weeks ago and found it was all clear."

Hackett's coach Denis Cotterell said that Hackett had lost up to one-quarter of his lung capacity at Athens....

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