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Olympic Champion McKeown Withdraws from Commonwealth Games Due to Illness
Olympic gold medalist backstroker Kaylee McKeown has withdrawn from the upcoming Pan Pacific Championships and Commonwealth Games. She is suffering from glandular fever, preventing her participation in the events.
9 Jul, 22:17 — 9 Jul, 23:55
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Olympic champion McKeown out of Commonwealth Games
Five-time Olympic backstroke champion Kaylee McKeown pulls out of this summer's Commonwealth Games in Glasgow with glandular fever.
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Olympic gold medalist backstroker McKeown is out of Commonwealth Games with glandular fever
Five-time Olympic swimming gold medalist Kaylee McKeown is out of the Commonwealth Games and the Pan Pacific Championships which follow due to glandular fever. The star backstroker won both the 100- and 200-meter distances at the Tokyo Olympics and repeated the feat at the Paris Games in 2024. “I am gutted to medically withdraw,” McKeown said in a Swimming Australia statement Friday.
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First report: BBC · 9 Jul, 22:17|Full coverage: 3 · 8h|Window: 8h
