The Paraguayan swimmer Luana Alonso (20) dropped a bombshell earlier in the Olympics.
The 20-year-old announced her retirement live on air after she was eliminated in her heat for the 100-meter butterfly.
– It didn’t go as I wanted. I sincerely apologize to my entire country, but I did what I could, despite everything that has happened to me before, she said according to Expressen, and continued:
– I am pleased to end my career in front of a full arena at the Olympics.
Now it is clear that Alonso must leave the athletes’ village, but it is not by her own initiative.
– Her presence creates an inappropriate atmosphere in the Paraguayan team, says former tennis player Larissa Schaerer, who is now the secretary-general of the Paraguayan Olympic Committee.
It is unclear what Alonso has done to create the atmosphere that Schaerer refers to.
According to the website El Avance, the 20-year-old temporarily left the athletes’ village after her fiasco in the heat.
Alonso is said to have taken a run through Paris and visited several attractions in the city of love. The outing ended with a visit to Disneyland.
The Paraguayan swimmer lives in the USA, and in an update on her Instagram account, you can see that she is back in the States.
– We thank her for following our instructions. It was she herself who chose to spend a night outside the Olympic village, says Schaerer.
Alonso also represented Paraguay at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021.
Luana Alonso has not commented on the matter.
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