Maarten Van Der Weijden Ends up in Hospital 2 Weeks After Monster Swimming Expedition

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Two weeks after Maarten van der Weijden was forced to stop his monster swim, he ended up in a hospital. According to the swimming icon, “suddenly a lot of things didn't go well”. “What can life change quickly.”

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Olympic champion Maarten van der Weijden was admitted to the hospital last Friday due to a septic reaction. This may be caused by a bacterium. Just two weeks earlier, the Alkmaar native swam through the Piushaven in Tilburg for his 22-cities tour. The post Maarten van der Weijden ends up in emergency room two weeks after grueling swim appeared first on .

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Swimmer Maarten van der Weijden ended up in the hospital following his recent epic swim for charity, after a septic reaction likely caused by a bacterium. "That was a shock last Friday," he wrote on social media. He himself initially did not realize how serious it was. "How quickly life can change." On August 22, Van der Weijden embarked on an epic swim through 22 different cities to raise money for childhood cancer research. It was set to be h…

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Swimmer Maarten van der Weijden, who abandoned his 22-city tour last month due to illness, ended up in the hospital shortly afterwards. He is now back home. "That was a shock."