Martina forced to abandon her plans of climbing Kilimanjaro Mountain
The former world number one tennis star Martina Navratilova was forced to abandon her attempt to climb the Kilimanjaro Mountain. The Czech American tennis star was taking part in a charity climb event in Tanzania.
According to some recent news reports the 54-year-old tennis legend from United States Martina Navratilova felt quite unwell on the fourth day of climbing the highest mountain of Africa. She was immediately taken to a hospital nearby and hence abandoned
her plans.
The tennis legend Navratilova is currently busy in raising funds for the Laureus Sport for Good Foundation. It is also to be noticed that the Czech American tennis star was hoping to raise a huge amount of one hundred and thirty three thousand dollars.
Martina Navratilova was joined by a team of twenty seven persons to climb the mountain but on the fourth day the former world champ Martina fell ill and later she was obliged to withdraw. According to some media reports the 54-year-old is now hospitalized
in Tanzania.
Martina Navratilova expressed her thoughts over the matter in a state of despair. She said that she felt very sorry that she was not been able to complete the struggle as it was one of the most memorable events of her life. She added that it was a perfect
campaign to raise funds for the Laureus Sport for Good Foundation.
Owning to her poor health, the tennis legend was taken down from the Mountain with the help of porters. While talking about her health the eighteen titles winner Martina Navratilova told the media that she was feeling better. She added that the hospital
was talking a good care of her and she was very hopeful to recover soon.
Moreover the doctor of Martina also seemed pretty satisfied with the recovery of the tennis star. Doctor David Silverstein told the media about the present condition of Navratilova and said that she is perfectly fine and out of danger now. While talking
about the disease from which Martina suffered during the climb, Doctor David said that the high altitude of the mountain caused the fluid in Martina’s lungs but after getting down she is recovering well. The Doctor added that this disease will not affect her
in future again and she will regain her full fitness very soon.
Before hiking the Kilimanjaro Mountain, Martina had expressed her thoughts in a very excited mood. She said that this climb is going to be the most memorable journey of her life as she has waited a lot for this. She told that she had always been aiming to
travel to Tanzania and she is happy that finally she has got the chance.
Moreover before mountaineering the mountain Martina had to go through the lung test and according to the medical reports before the climb Martina’s lungs were perfectly fit for the climb. Martina was joined by the German veteran cyclist Michael Teuber in
the expedition.
It is also reported that some of the other team members are also facing health difficulties because of the high altitude but the Laureus team is set to get to the summit of the mountain very soon.
The German cyclist Teuber expressed his views \ to the media and said that all the Laureus team members are very sad about Martina’s condition. However, he added that the Laureus team is happy about the fact that Navratilova is out of danger. He continued
that after the incident the team is more inspired to touch the summit.
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