Photo: GettyAustralian swimmers Bronte Barratt and Madison Wilson have reportedly been hospitalised in Rio, missing the team's first chartered flight home from the Olympics. Wilson, a member of the winning women's 4x100-metre freestyle relay team, was thought to have been suffering from appendicitis on Sunday (local time), according to Fairfax Media. However she was later cleared of the condition and was expected to make a second chartered flight. Barratt was also still hopeful of making the second flight home, despite contracting pneumonia after the rain-affected closing ceremony. The Rio Games were due to be Barratt's last after also representing Australia in Beijing and London.

Source: Otago Daily Times August 23, 2016 01:30 UTC