Swimming-Olympic champion McKeown to overlook Pan Pacs, Commonwealth Games attributable to sickness | WTVB | 1590 AM · 95.5 FM

July 10 (Reuters) – Kaylee McKeown has withdrawn from this yr’s Pan Pacific Championships and Commonwealth Games attributable to medical points, saying she has struggled ​with fatigue, shortness of breath and a loss ‌of urge for food for a number of months.

The 24-year-old Australian has gained a document 10 particular person backstroke titles throughout the Olympic Games and World Aquatics Championships.

She is the reigning Olympic champion within the 100-metre and ‌200m ​backstroke and holds the world document ⁠within the long-course 50m ⁠backstroke, and the long-course and short-course 200m backstroke.

“I am gutted to medically withdraw,” she stated in a press release to Swimming Australia on Friday. “What I thought a ​few months ago was the flu has turned out to be my body fighting glandular fever.”

“I was sick ⁠going into trials and I ⁠just have not got better and I ​am worried about pushing myself so hard that I end ​up with chronic fatigue.

“It was a hard decision ‌to make but it was the right one.”

In a separate Instagram publish, McKeown stated she needs to concentrate on her restoration and be prepared for the 2028 Los ⁠Angeles Olympics.

“Unfortunately I’ve had to pull the pin on Comm Games and Pan Pacs,” she stated. “Not exactly ideal, but LA28 ⁠is the big ‌picture and I’d rather have myself ⁠sorted by then. So, for now, I’ll ​be ‌M.I.A.”

McKeown has gained 4 Commonwealth Games gold ​medals, all ⁠of them in Birmingham in 2022.

The Pan Pacific championships run from August 12 to fifteen in Irvine, California. The Commonwealth Games start in Glasgow from July 23 and run via August 2.

(Reporting by Rishabh Jaiswal in Bengaluru; Editing ​by Thomas Derpinghaus)