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Now for the rumours behind the news. He was lucky to be rescued by a passing motorist who took him to the hospital where he was admitted to surgery. Despite being wounded to a kidney, physicians announced within a few hours that his condition was stable. Later Popov himself reassured the media from his hospital bed that he would soon be back in the water. While the doctors have declared him out of danger, Popov's coach, Gennadi Touretski, fears for the sprinter's career, saying that tennis player Monica Seles was not as good now as she had been before she was stabbed in 1993.