FILE PHOTO: Swimming - 14th FINA World Swimming Championships (25m) - Men's Breaststroke 50m Finals - Hangzhou, China - December 16, 2018. Cameron van der Burgh of South Africa competes. REUTERS/Aly Song
CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - Former Olympic swimming champion Cameron van der Burgh has said he has been battling the new coronavirus for the last two weeks and that athletes who continue to train for the Tokyo Games are exposing themselves to “unnecessary risk”.
South African Van der Burgh won gold in the 100m breaststroke at the 2012 London Olympics and silver in Rio four years later before retiring in 2018.
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