Team GB Ambassador Charlie Webster on Life Support, in Coma in Brazil

Team GB ambassador and former Sky Sports presenter Charlie Webster is reportedly "fighting for her life" and has been placed in an induced coma after contracting a rare form of malaria. She is currently being treated in a Rio de Janeiro hospital after making her way to the 2016 Olympic Games.

According to Sam Tonkin and Nick Fagge of the MailOnline, the 33-year-old started feeling ill during the opening ceremony of the Olympics and is now on life support.

Her agent Megan Carver said that "Charlie has contracted a rare form of malaria and is undergoing treatment at a hospital in Rio de Janeiro. Charlie is getting the best treatment available from a team of specialist doctors from Brazil, the USA and the UK."

Per the Press Association (h/t the Guardian), a spokesman for the Foreign Office said, "We are providing support to a British woman who is in hospital in Rio."

Webster had posted pictures and updates of her condition to social media as she entered hospital, with her team providing one on August 11:

A number of her former colleagues from Sky Sports tweeted messages of support:

On Thursday, the team sent out thanks:

The presenter had just completed a six-week, 3,000-mile charity bike ride prior to the Olympics, which took her from London to Lisbon and then from Recife to Rio.

Her mother and brother are among the family members who have headed to Rio to be with her in the intensive care unit of the hospital in Copacabana.

According to Tonkin and Fagge, a friend of Webster's said she had been diligent in checking the health risks of travelling in Brazil but was informed anti-malaria drugs were not needed in the parts of the country through which she was passing.

Indeed, outside the Amazon region of the country, the risk of contracting the mosquito-borne disease is described as "negligible or non-existent" by the World Health Organisation.