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By Mat Luebbers, About.com Guide to Swimming since 1999

Swimmer Grant Hackett Hospitalized While Visiting China

Wednesday April 25, 2007
Reports from China are that Austalian Olympic Gold Medal swimmer Grant Hackett has been hospitalized due to a severe infection. Hackett was touring China on his honeymoon, got a small cut on his ankle from some coral, and the cut evidently escalated into a severe infection, possibly caused by flesh-eating bacteria, according to reports from a variety of sources.

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