'My heart can't take it' - Natalia Maliszewska devastated after Covid-19 debacle destroys Winter Olympics dream

Polish short track speed skater Natalia Maliszewska has taken to social media to express her complete devastation at not being able to compete at the Olympics after testing positive for Covid-19. Maliszewska tested positive for Covid on January 30 and was ruled out from participating, but was unexpectedly released from Covid isolation hours on Friday night before Saturday's 500m qualifying race. Ad/> However, she then tested positive again just hours before the race on Saturday which saw her denied from competing at the Olympics.

Beijing 2022'I’ve never done that… heartbreaking' – GB's Treacy stops a lap early in awkward gaffe18 HOURS AGO After it was confirmed that she would not be able to participate in her second Olympics, where she was a medal favourite, a distraught Maliszewska says her «heart can't take it anymore». «It is so damn hard for me to speak and say anything,» she wrote. «Let me know that I am alive even though I think there is something in me that died yesterday.

»I have been living in fear for over a week… and these mood swings, the crying that takes my breath away, make it not only the people around me worry about me but myself alone. «I know a lot of people do not understand this situation. Positive and negative tests, tests confirming isolation, suddenly positive tests with results that qualify me to be in the hospital on a ventilator.» «Later, good results again and a chance to be released.

Then a total flop. No possibility and hope is dead. »I'm packing for the ice rink, I'm taking off! I unpack my clothes, hang up my clothes and suddenly the news that they were wrong! That they shouldn't let me out of solitary confinement villages.