Team GB Ambassador Charlie Webster Being Treated for Malaria in Brazil

Team GB ambassador and former Sky Sports presenter Charlie Webster is reportedly "fighting for her life" and has been placed in an induced coma after contracting a rare form of malaria. She is currently being treated in a Rio de Janeiro hospital after making her way to the 2016 Olympic Games.According to Sam Tonkin and Nick Fagge of the MailOnline, the 33-year-old started feeling ill during the opening ceremony of the Olympics and is now on a life-support machine.Her agent Megan Carver said:"Charlie has contracted a rare form of malaria and is undergoing treatment at a hospital in Rio de Janeiro.Charlie is getting the best treatment available from a team of specialist doctors from Brazil, the USA and the UK."Per the Press Association (h/t the Guardian), a spokesman for the Foreign Office said: "We are providing support to a British woman who is in hospital in Rio."More to follow.
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