Canadian Athlete Finishes Ninth And Vomits TEN TIMES After Triathlon In The Seine River

Daily Report August 02,2024

A Canadian triathlete who made headlines after vomiting 10 times in Paris has come out to explain the cause of his illness.

The 29-year-old Tyler Mislawchuck, who finished ninth in the event, said he thought halfway through what would be his final run Wednesday that he might have something left for an Olympic medal.

“For me, whether I was fourth or 55th it doesn’t really matter. I tried to win a medal and I went out there and was basically in third place with the two French guys for five and a half or 6 km,” the three-time Olympian told Triathlon Magazine.

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“At my last Olympics there was the injury and with all the stuff that happened there was a lot of ‘what ifs,’” said Mislawchuck, who finished 15th in both the Rio 2016 and Tokyo 2020 games.

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However, mid-race vomiting caught Mislawchuck by surprise, for which he blames the heat.

“I have no ‘what ifs’ on the day, I went for it, it was absolutely everything. I vomited 10 times after the race … it got hot in the last laps,” Mislawchuk said.

“I’m just a kid from Winnipeg, well, specifically Oak Bluff, where it’s –50 (Celcius) in the winter, and I’m here at the Summer Olympics.”

The air temp was 78.4F at the start of the event and went to 82.04 within an hour after it finished, sources said

“For me, I did everything I could over the last three years. I came back from an Achilles tear, concussion, crashes. You name it, I’ve had it in the last three years,” he told the outlet. “I got to the start line healthy and gave it my all, I’m proud of the effort. You want more, but that’s all I had.”

Mislawchuck added that he kept pushing himself during the race by creating momentary goals until it became his newly accomplished reality.

“The whole time I was telling myself 20 more seconds. From about two km in I was saying 20 more seconds for the rest of your life, and I did that until 6 km. Then I kept doing it, but I ran out of a bit of steam. Unfortunately, the race is 10 km, not 6 km, and the last four km was an eternity.”

However, few triathletes were not holding their back about how hard it was to swim in Seine.

Jolien Vermeylen of Belgium told us she found debris in the water during the women’s triathlon before her race.

“While swimming under the bridge, I felt and saw things that we shouldn’t think about too much,” she told Flemish TV channel VTM.

Dutch competitors shared similar resentments of the water, calling it “disgusting” and “dirty.”

“Swimming in the Seine was disgusting,” Rachel Klamer told RTL Nieuws. “The water was dirty, and the conditions were unfair. A lot of swimmers came out of the water behind me who are actually faster. The swimming was really a lottery.”

Cassandre Beaugrand of France and Alex Yee from Great Britain took home the gold in their respective races.

With the Olympics in Paris, officials began an ambitious $1.5 billion plan to clear up sewage along the long-polluted Seine River, but it seems their efforts weren’t enough.