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Olympic swimming champion preventing for her life after struggling horror burns in blaze at her luxurious house

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By Linda Ikeji

Olympic swimming champion fighting for her life after suffering horror burns in blaze at her luxury apartment

A Russian Olympic swimming champion is preventing for her life after her garments caught hearth at her luxurious Moscow flat.

Maria Shurochkina, a double gold medallist and 11-time world champion, was rushed to hospital with horrific burns after the incident involving a bioethanol hearth.

Doctors are battling to save lots of the synchronised swimming star amid fears of doubtless deadly problems, together with burn shock, dehydration, and an infection.

Her situation was first described as “moderate” however deteriorated to “serious”, reported Russian Telegram channel Mash.

According to The Sun UK, Shurochkina suffered acute injury to the pores and skin on her head, neck, chest, stomach, arms, and arms.

It was reported that Shurochkina was refilling a bioethanol hearth in her luxurious four-bedroom penthouse on the seventeenth flooring of the residential complicated in western Moscow. The flammable vapours ignited, setting her garments on hearth.

Shurochkina was then discovered screaming and writhing in ache within the stairwell.

An ambulance rushed her to Moscow’s Sklifosovsky Emergency Research Institute.

Shurochkina is certainly one ofRussia‘s most embellished synchronised swimmers, successful Olympic gold in Rio de Janeiro in 2016 and once more on the Tokyo Games held in 2021.

Vladimir Putin awarded her the Order of Friendship in 2016 and the Order of Honour in 2021.

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