In the span of 24 hours, the Paraguayan swimmer fell out of the Olympics, after a 6th place finish in the 100m butterfly event, before surprisingly declaring her retirement from the sport.
But drama would not yet depart the so-called Wonder Girl’s Olympic existence, as yesterday it was announced she was thrown out of the Athletes’ Village for creating a ‘inappropriate environment’ among her colleagues.’
While she has published numerous provocative photographs on her social media, including a steamy shower selfie and countless snaps showing off her Olympic rings tattoo on her upper-right thigh, nothing is known about why she was ordered to leave.
Paraguay’s Olympic Team did not comment on the statement, but Larissa Schaerer, the director of the COP mission, added: ‘We commend her for doing as advised, since it was of her own free choosing that she did not spend the night at the Athletes’ Village.’
Alsono herself did nothing to abate the curiosity, writing to Instagram yesterday night to say: ‘I just wanted to clarify that I was never booted out or expelled from anyplace, please stop circulating incorrect information. I don’t want to make any statement but I’m not going to let falsehoods impact me either.’
So who exactly is Luana Alonso? MailOnline looks into the swimmer’s life to discover out.
Her job has brought her all over the globe, from Doha to Budapest, and along the way she’s posted breathtaking images of her in bikinis and swimsuits.
In Doha, where she was participating in the 2024 World Aquatics Championships, she was observed crossing the desert in a lacy white mesh outfit.
She was also photographed on a jet-ski while wearing a bright orange bikini in the Qatari capital, as well as a camel while wearing a loose, short black dress.
At the tournament itself, she was photographed sporting a tight, bright orange bikini that displayed her Olympic rings tattoo, as well as a visible tanline from her stay in the Middle East sun.
But before she was travelling around the globe to show off her athletic skills, she cut her teeth in her native nation of Paraguay.
Born in Asuncion, her country’s capital in 2004, she started swimming at barely four years old having been inspired by her grandpa.
Just two years later, she began participating in races, and swiftly earned reputation as a young prodigy.
She remarked in 2022 that the instant she won her first tournament, she realised that she wanted to commit her life to the sport.
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‘At that point, I understood swimming was my thing’, she added.
Her apparently instinctive aptitude in the water was sharpened by her commitment to her sport, stating in 2020 that she trains in the water twice a day, and also performs gym training and stretching every day on top of that.
Her passion to the sport led her participate in international games at the age of 15, after participating in the World Junior Championships in Budapest, Hungary, in 2019.
Two years later. she represented her nation in the South American Championships in Argentina, before making her Olympic debut at Tokyo 2021.
Sadly, she hardly made a mark there, placing only 28th in the 100m butterfly.
To support her swimming, she obtained coveted scholarships to two American institutions, Southern Methodist University in Texas and Virginia Tech in Virginia. She was a Division 1 athlete at both campuses.
But her stay in the US seems to have tarnished her attachment to her own nation.
In late July, five days after the Paris Games started, she allegedly rushed to her social media to say that she would rather participate for the US than Paraguay.
‘I want to represent the United States more’, she told her hundreds of thousands of fans.
She said that her country’s Olympic organisation ‘threatened’ her.
‘They threatened to make a statement, that I am going to quit because of university… They want to humiliate me,’ she claimed.
‘It’s not a joy to represent Paraguay and if it were up to me, I would go back to college’, she continued.
For yet, nothing is known about what else the 20-year-old bombshell will do. She claimed in a statement on her Instagram after her retirement that she would not stop swimming permanently.
