The 31-year-old five-time Olympic gold medallist contracted the bugs after undergoing surgeries on his shoulder at a hospital near his home in Switzerland’s Ronco sopra Ascona.
Thorpe has since returned to Sydney, where he is receiving treatment.
His manager, James Erskine, told the Australian Associated Press that his condition was “not life-threatening”. “He’s contracted two forms of bugs in hospital. He’s undergone two or three operations over the last two months so … I mean bad luck. He’s quite sick but that’s the situation.”
Erskine rejected earlier reports that the former swimming champion could lose the use of his arm because of the infections, but said he would never swim competitively again.
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