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of swimmer Anita Alvarez's fainting

On June 18th, 2022, the World Swimming Championship began in Budapest, the capital of Hungary. The international competition included a discipline called artistic swimming. A young athlete, Anita Alvarez, a member of the American team, took part in the artistic swimming round. Thanks to AFP's sophisticated technology and know-how in underwater photography, this unbelievable scene was captured by AFP photographer Oli Scarff and it gave rise to some surreal images of this rescue.

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It was incredibly shocking to go from having photographed this kind of like this amazing, incredibly athletic, artistic, beautiful display to suddenly go this person's in danger of losing her life.

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