Sports presenter Charlie Webster ‘battling for survival’ after contracting rare form of malaria – Telegraph.co.uk

Charlie Webster, a television host working with the Team GB Olympic media team, was in an induced coma in a Rio hospital on Wednesday night with a rare strain of malaria.

The former Sky Sports presenter, 33, is thought to have contracted the disease on a charity bike ride.

She cycled 3,000 miles from London’s Olympic Stadium to Rio to raise funds for the Jane Tomlinson Foundation, and was due to stay on in Rio as part of Team GB’s Great Britons campaign alongside Nick Grimshaw and Jodie Kidd.

However, she fell ill with what was initially thought to be a kidney problem before becoming seriously ill.