2019 WORLD UNIVERSITY GAMES/SUMMER UNIVERSIADE – SWIMMING
- July 4th-9th, 2019
- Napoli, Italy
- LCM (50m)
- Live Stream: Olympic Channel (in US), Rai Sport (in Italy)
- Entry Lists & Live Results
American Justin Ress received medical attention during tonight’s finals session of the World University Games, but has been cleared to return to Team USA.
SwimSwam’s Giusy Cisale is on site in Naples covering the meet live. She reports that Ress was on the ground for 5-6 minutes after his swim in tonight’s 100 backstroke final where he won bronze. Ress was eventually taken outside to an ambulance to receive medical attention. Ress was cleared by the paramedics outside and was not taken anywhere in the ambulance.
Paramedics told Cisale that Ress’ heart rate was high and his blood pressure low, but that his condition stabilized and he was eventually cleared to return to the pool deck and warm down, and he is now back with the team. He’s scheduled to swim the 50 backstroke on Saturday morning. Ress was the 2017 U.S. National champion in that event and finished 6th at the World Championships that year.
Thank you. That’s quite the compliment.
Pre-workout will get ya
It got Dressel a 17.6. So there’s that.
Does he have a heart condition?
None of our business.
No but we can speculate
Sounds like SVT or AFib
Both can be intermittent and relapse
Both treatable
More likely he just went a world class 100 back and had sinus tach at 220. It’s not like he went from NSR to 220 (or whatever it was). It happened as soon as he got out. Otherwise, they’d have him in the hospital for obs and cardiac tele.
Idiotic concept
If exertion caused hypotension they would all pass out
This dudes resting hr is under 50
He NEVER gets to 220 with exertion
Leave the diagnosis to the doctors
I am a doctor and a scientist —- for over 30 years—-and you obviously don’t know the literature on max HR in young elite athletes (190 was the mean here without preworkout stimulants or being on a world stage https://springerplus.springeropen.com/articles/10.1186/s40064-015-1341-8), and many other studies have put max HR in a lab environment (no stimulants, no psyche up ) at 200. You also don’t understand the effect of HR on LV filling pressures and the fact that a HR at 200-220 can cause hypotension bc of inadequate time for LV filling. So who’s the idiot? Come back at me with some science.
As another point to my “idiotic” assertion, there’s no way he would’ve been medically speared to compete today if it were exercise-induced SVT or a. fib. It obviously was just sinus tach with no other ecg abnormally noted.
What I read is that a young healthy elite athlete after intense exertion collapsed somewhere for a sustained period of time such that he had to be taken to an ambulance for emergency evaluation and treatment. Whatever they did in the ambulance his blood pressure and heart rate normalized. As far as further observation we don’t know what happened. I hope that he is OK.
Who said treatment? More likely they just got an EKG, saw it was sinus tach, and let him go. If they actually had to treat to break SVT or a.fib/flutter, he’d be in the hospital.
I don’t think it’s the comment section’s place to try to diagnose him and he deserves some privacy. Hope he is ok.
Be strong Mr. Ress – Congrats on a great swim!!
Didn’t he also hurt himself and miss a session of NCAAs in 2018? Bad luck for the kid.
Yes. That was his back.
Dang. Hope he gets well soon