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Navratilova released from Nairobi hospital

NAIROBI, Kenya

Martina Navratilova was released from a Nairobi hospital Sunday, three days after her liquid-filled lungs forced her to abandon her attempt to climb Africa’s highest mountain.

The tennis great was carried down Mount Kilimanjaro on a litter Thursday night and Friday morning. Navratilova said she knew by Wednesday she wouldn’t be able to summit the 19,340-foot mountain in Tanzania.

She was treated for high-altitude pulmonary edema.

The 54-year-old, who had a bout with breast cancer earlier this year, reached nearly 14,800 feet when a doctor with the 27-person climbing team told her she needed to descend. Navratilova is the winner of 18 singles Grand Slams.

Film critics’ awards

LOS ANGELES

Performers in two overseas crime dramas have won supporting-actor honors from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association.

Jacki Weaver was named best supporting actress as the menacing matriarch of a Melbourne crime clan in Australia’s “Animal Kingdom.” Niles Arestrup won for supporting actor as a jailed Corsican mob boss in France’s “A Prophet.”

Associated Press