Sweden’s Therese Alshammar, who is on path to her fifth Olympics, may be stalled at four, according to comments made at a Swedish Team press conference Thursday. She is suffering from a pinched nerve in her right shoulder, suffered sometime in the last few months, that has devolved into recurring back pain and the inability to complete a full shoulder rotation.
Team doctor Rene Tour told the Swedish News Agency TT that “”We are taking it one day at a time. It could become better in just a couple of days, it could also take a month.”
Alshammar, Sweden’s most famous swimmer, is a serious medal contender in the women’s 50 free (she was fastest in the world in the race in 2011). She has already confirmed that she will pull out of the 400 free relay, with the individual events in jeopardy as well. With medal hopes of that relay dashed, don’t be surprised to see Sarah Sjostrom decline a chance to swim as well.
It remains to be seen whether or not Alshammar will swim the 400 medley, which has a chance at a bronze medal.
This is definitely not good, back pain with pinched nerve symptoms are definitely going to curbside her for a long time. This is really a tragedy, would’ve loved to see her compete again this year!
OMG! She is my favorite swimmer of all time! I really do hope she recovers in time for the 50 m!!!
i wrote my picks down but forgot to submit ;;;; it’s fine , it’s for fun ! we are fans having fun for the olympics ;;;;waiting spectacular swims and incredible battles ! Bring the Hammer down , i can’t sleep anymore . Specially for the 400 free relayssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss
There’s still time. You still have 12 hours. I haven’t submitted my individual events picks as well.
Braden,
I have just submittted my relay picks, but not sure if it got through.. the boxes just went blank after I hit “submit your entry”.. it didn’t tell me if I successfully submitted it though…
So did it get sent?
Yep we got them. I’ll talk to Davis and see if he can put in some sort of “submission received” output.
We plan on posting at the least a PDF of everyone’s picks, so people can track their progress.
oh no!
Thankfully I haven’t submitted my individual events prediction. But I think I might have put sweden to final in the 4×100 free 🙁
noooooooooooooo!