Italian swimmer Federica Pellegrini, an Olympic champion and world-record holder, said in a social media video that she tested positive for the coronavirus.
“I have just received the bad news,” the 32-year-old freestyler said in Italian, according to an Agence France-Presse (AFP) translation. “This afternoon I had a swab, and the result is positive. I am positive for the Covid.”
Pellegrini, the 2008 Olympic champion and world-record holder in the 200m freestyle, said she left a training session Wednesday “in a lot of pain,” then developed a sore throat, according to AFP.