Akatiev on antibiotics for swimming in the Seine: “They hit the body, we drank activated charcoal”

Multiple world champion in open water swimming, former coach of the Russian national team Alexei Akatiev told that he had never taken antibiotics before swimming to prevent infection in bodies of water.

Dutch swimmer and Olympic champion Sharon van Rauwendaal has previously said she will take a dose of antibiotics before swimming in the Seine at the 2024 Olympics in Paris.

— Athletes usually try to avoid antibiotics. They hit the body hard. In the Seine, the water is not the best, but antibiotics… Activated carbon, its quantity would have been disproportionate, before, during and after, as they say. This is probably the only way. When there were poisonings due to bad water, they were used to save themselves. But we did not even organize competitions in such dirty water.

“She also said that afterwards they finished everything off with Cola.” Is this a way to clean teapots with Sprite?

– It’s already a placebo effect.

— How can ice cure a sore throat?

“From this series,” Akatiev told .

The Paris Summer Olympics will take place from July 26 to August 11.

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