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Three athletes hospitalised after being given sanitiser to drink instead of water in big goof-up in Japan

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In a terrible goof-up in Japan, high school girl athletes in a 5,000 km walking race were given a hand sanitiser to drink instead of water which resulted in three of them being hospitalised.</p>
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One athlete is reported to have vomited and collapsed after drinking the sanitiser, while the two others spat it out.</p>
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The three athletes were reported to be recovering and a government inquiry has been ordered into the incident. </p>
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According to an AFP report from Tokyo, competition organisers of the race held last weekend in central Japan's Yamanashi prefecture mistakenly poured the sanitiser into cups and placed them at a drinks station for athletes.</p>
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Yamanashi's high school sport federation said the sanitiser had been stored in an unlabelled plastic bottle alongside those containing drinking water in a cardboard box.</p>
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Alcohol-based hand sanitiser has become common worldwide as it is being used to check the spread of Covid-19.</p>
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