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Ian Chadband

Johnson celebrates in-Seine silver - with antibiotics

Moesha Johnson splashing to her marathon swimming silver medal in the Seine. (Joel Carrett/AAP PHOTOS)

Australian Moesha Johnson has celebrated her Olympic marathon swimming silver, earned the hard way in the brutal polluted currents of the Seine, with a Coca Cola - and a dose of antibiotics.

The Tweed Heads, NSW, swimmer was overjoyed to achieve her medal dream, losing out in Thursday's magnificent 10km duel only to her best friend and training partner, Dutch great Sharon van Rouwendaal.

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