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“Everything went black,” according to the American swimmer who passed out in the pool during the world championships. Team USA artistic swimmer Anita Alvarez, who was miraculously saved by her coach Andrea Fuentes, remarked, “It all happened really fast.” Speaking up about the terrifying episode, a Team USA Artistic swimmer who fainted during the world aquatics championships in Budapest on Wednesday was miraculously saved by her coach. After placing eighth in the Wednesday individual final, Anita Alvarez, 25, said in an exclusive interview with NBC Nightly News, “I remember feeling like it was a really wonderful performance.” “It was by far my best performance ever, not only because of how well I performed, but also because I was having fun and truly living in the moment,” he remarked. .. “So, because of that I feel pretty happy and really proud.” In the interview, Alvarez—who was accompanied by her coach, Andrea Fuentes—said she gave her performance her all the way to the very end. “It was the last thing I remember, really,” she remarked. “And then I remember going down and just being like, kind of like, uh oh, like, I don’t feel too great.” Olympian twice, Alvarez, reported that she “began to feel a little bit of numbness in my fingertips and then honestly, just kind of everything went dark and that was… kind of it.” “Everything happened so quickly.”
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