It's not often an elite swimmer with genuine Olympic dreams comes close to drowning. But that's what happened to a young Sydney man who went into cardiac arrest during training. 7NEWS was there as he thanked the paramedics who saved his life. 

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Olympic swimmer survives cardiac arrest in pool

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