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Kaylee McKeown has withdrawn from this yr’s Pan Pacific Championships and Commonwealth Games attributable to medical points, saying she has struggled with fatigue, shortness of breath and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 lack 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 in the 100-metre and 200 backstrokeand holds the world document within the long-course 50 backstroke, and the long-course and short-course 200 backstroke.
“I am gutted to medically withdraw,” she mentioned 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 tough resolution to make nevertheless it was the appropriate one.”
On Tuesday, Toronto’s Summer McIntosh scratched the 400-metre freestyle final at the Canadian trials in Montreal due to illness. Fellow Canadian and two-time Olympian Mary-Sophie Harvey also pulled out of the event two days later, also due to health issues.
In a separate Instagram post, McKeown said she wants to focus on her recovery and be ready for the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics.
“Unfortunately, I’ve needed to pull the pin on Comm Games and Pan Pacs,” she said. “Not precisely splendid, however LA28 is the large image and I’d slightly 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 Aug. 12-15 in Irvine, Calif., adopted by the July 23-Aug. 2 Commonwealth Games.
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