Waterpolo - Virus hits Australian women's Olympics team

Kitty Chiller, Chef de Mission for Australia at the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, gives a news conference in which she described the problems that her country's delegation encountered with the athletes' housing in Rio de Janeiro, July 25, 2016. REUTERS/Rickey Rogers

RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Four members of the 'Aussie Stingers', Australia's women's Olympic water polo team, face 48 hours in medical isolation after suffering an attack of gastroenteritis on their way to Rio.

The team of 13 players were due to land in Brazil on a delayed flight from Rome, where they had been training for the Games, later on Monday.