[News] Medvedev explodes: "If I die, you will be responsible"

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Paula Badosa said goodbye to heatstroke but is no exception at the Olympics. In the Japanese oven, with temperatures close to 40º and a humidity higher than 70%, competing in conditions is a chimera. Without the protection of a shadow and with the only protection of a cap, the fight is against the rival and against one's own body, which faints. Badosa has to retire in a wheelchair, dizzy.

 

Daniil Medvedev suffers between point and point. He sighs, he leans

on the racket with visible gestures of exhaustion and receives medical attention twice.

Carlos Ramos, the chair umpire, asks him if he can continue playing, to which

the Russian responds with a very hard blow, which remains unanswered: “I can finish the game,

but I can die. Do you want me to die of heat? If I die, will you be responsible? ».

 

At the Ariake Tennis Park, without an audience, only players, judges

and ball boys absorb the heat. "I was ready to hit the court," he said

after the game. But still Medvedev won. 6-2, 3-6, 6-2 over Italian

Fabio Fognini to reach the quarterfinals. Badosa, however, could not bear

that dizzying sensation of suffocation.