[News] Update: Anita Alvarez banned from competing in artistic swimming final at the World Championships in Budapest today, 48 hours after she fainted in the pool and stopped breathing for 2 minutes

Of the incident, she added: ‘I remember feeling like it was a really great performance. Like, my best one by far and not only just how I performed but just that I was actually enjoying it and really living in the moment too. So, because of that I feel really happy and really proud.

‘And then at the very end, I do remember like the very last arm I did, I gave like, it’s such a simple small arm. But I was like give everything until the very end and I did that and then I remember going down and just being like, kind of like, ‘uh-oh, I don’t feel too great. And that’s literally the last thing I remember actually.’

During an Olympics qualifying event in Barcelona 2021,  Fuentes also saved the swimmer after she was filmed diving in and pulling her to safety when she fainted in the pool.