Australian here. Thorpe apparently badly broke his left shoulder in a fall in February and has had multiple surgeries since. Contracted an MRSA infection after the last one. He is in hospital on intravenous antibiotics, but not in intensive care as some media reports claim. Reports that he was at risk of losing function in his arm denied and then half-confirmed. There are a big range of possibilities between "full use of arm, can swim at an elite level" and "no use of arm". Thorpe's shoulder injury itself sounds severe enough to rule out "100% full use/elite swimming" as a possible outcome for him. That said, he retired in July last year: www.theaustralian.com.au/.../story-e6frg7mf-1226687176922
Australian here. Thorpe apparently badly broke his left shoulder in a fall in February and has had multiple surgeries since. Contracted an MRSA infection after the last one. He is in hospital on intravenous antibiotics, but not in intensive care as some media reports claim. Reports that he was at risk of losing function in his arm denied and then half-confirmed. There are a big range of possibilities between "full use of arm, can swim at an elite level" and "no use of arm". Thorpe's shoulder injury itself sounds severe enough to rule out "100% full use/elite swimming" as a possible outcome for him. That said, he retired in July last year: www.theaustralian.com.au/.../story-e6frg7mf-1226687176922
