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Scotland Commonwealth Games swimmer diagnosed with incurable brain tumours

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Scotland Commonwealth Games swimmer diagnosed with incurable brain tumours

Scots swimmer Archie Goodburn has revealed he has been diagnosed with incurable brain tumours.

Tests conducted after this year’s Olympic trails found the 22-year-old from Edinburgh, who won bronze in the men’s 50m breaststroke at the 2019 World Junior Swimming Championships in Hungary and has represented Scotland at the Commonwealth Games, has three large oligodendrogliomas – a rare form of diffuse and progressive brain cancer – which are inoperable.




Goodburn wrote in a post on his official Instagram account: “Six weeks ago, my life experienced a profound change as I was diagnosed with three brain tumours.

“In December 2023, my training began to be interrupted by strange episodes. These episodes, initially thought to be hemiplegic migraines, would occur during hard training.

“They would leave me with a loss of strength and a numb sensation on my left side, a deep feeling of fear, nausea and extreme deja vu. I now know that these were in fact seizures.

“The seizures grew in intensity and frequency in the lead-up to the 2024 Olympic trials in April, something I’d aimed for and trained for almost my entire life.

The swimmer has vowed to fight his illness(Image: Getty Images)

“I was determined on achieving my dreams, so I continued to train on through the seizures. I narrowly missed the Olympic team by just a few tenths of a second, placing third in an event with only two spots.

“With the trials behind me, I dug deeper into what was really causing these attacks. An MRI in May finally revealed what I’d begun to fear the most.”

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