Natalia Maliszewska in a special mode. The Chinese completely smashed it

She will stand in front of TVP and Eurosport cameras present in Beijing. It cost her a lot. And enough. She felt that only one thing mattered and that nothing could distract her. Her staff is handing over – no interviews so far. She wants to go back to normal and try to do what she came for.

Chiczycy smashed Maliszewsk

Wednesday, February 9, 12:44 PM Polish time – then start the 1000-meter qualifying round in women’s short track. Natalia Maliszewska will perform in the eighth of eight runs. Yes, it will finally occur. Our favorite of 500 meters was in the Olympic hall on February 5 and she was getting ready to compete in qualifying when she was ordered to return to the village.

. There were a lot of hoses, there were anxiety states caused by the scandalous behavior of the organizers of these games. They changed their minds several times when they had to decide whether the Polish nutritionist could come out of the isolation she finds on Jan. 30 through a positive covid test. At three in the night of February 4-5, Maliszewsk was brought to the Olympic Village. Later, she was allowed to go to the qualifying for her crown competition, starting at 7 p.m. Pekis time. But at the last moment it was turned back. And it was completely smashed in this way.

“What is dead in me,” we read in shock

A day later, which she published in her social media. Let’s remind him:

I feel so damn hard to speak and whatever I say … Let me know that I am alive, although I believe that what died in me yesterday. I’ve been living in fear for over a week … and these mood swings, my breathless crying make it not only the people around me worry about me. But me alone. I know a lot of people do not understand this situation. Positive and negative tests, tests near isolation, suddenly positive tests with results that qualify me to go to hospital on a ventilator. Later again, good results and a chance for parole. Later, a total flop. No possibility … hope is dead.

Finally, on the day of take-off at 3 am, people take me out of solitary … That night would be a horror. I slept fully clothed, because I was afraid that someone would take me back to solitary confinement in a moment. I only looked a little through the curtains. With one eye, because I was afraid anyone would see me.

Later, great hope. Pack for the ice rink, take off! I unpack my clothes, hang up the garment … and suddenly you know they got it wrong! but they shouldn’t let me out of solitary! yet I am a threat! that they cannot take off. I need to get back to the village as soon as possible …

I don’t understand it either. I don’t believe in anything anymore. No tests. No games. It is one big ART for me. I hope that whoever controls it has a lot of fun … My brain and my heart can’t take any more. THANK YOU. I’ll hear you soon.

“Trusting her is the best thing you can do”

Today Natalia says nothing. He is in a special mode, in full concentration before the competition. Jakub Jaworski, her manager, speaks for Natalia.

What can we count on? What can he expect from Natalia, who has been through so much before finally competing in these games?

– Experiences that have affected us over the past week teach us to expect as little as possible and see the situation as it is and to limit speculation. Natalia trains and is with the teams, which is positive. But she spent a long time in isolation and was subjected to enormous psychological stress. Nobody knows what to expect, Jaworski tells us.

– I believe that giving Natalia a moment of peace for concentration and trusting her is the best thing that can be done. The first start on Wednesday is qualifying. Thanks to this, he has more time until Friday, when there will be a fight for medals – adds the 2010 Vancouver Olympian.

At 500 m it is great, but also better at 1000 m

It sounds nice. After that, it is not difficult to notice that in Maliszewska’s entourage there are hopes for her promotion to the finals. Pure sportsmanship is not a difficult task for a sportswoman of this class. There will be eight races in the qualifying rounds (Natalia will start in the seventh, in the eighth we will see Kamil Stormowsk), in each race there will be four runners and in each run the two fastest winners will go directly to the tops. Additionally, four more lucky best-time losers qualify.

Maliszewska is, among others World Vice Champion, European Champion and World Cup Winner. All these successes were achieved at 500 meters, but the closer the Olympics were to Beijing, the better it was at 1000 meters. Because she builds a great form and from this distance. Confirmation is her third place in 1000 m at the World Cup in Debrecen at the end of November. Throughout the P season, Natalia was a seventh at this distance.

“I am calm about Natalia”

And at the peak of its form, it was definitely not there yet. In the second half of January, we heard from her camp that she is strong on all three distances (she is also qualified for the Olympic at 1500 m), and that she has training times at both 500 and 1000 meters, which show that in Beijing she will be strong at great stuff.

Now – after all that has happened – it would be a great risk to announce great things. But the hope for a happy ending is not only in us, journalists writing about Maliszewska, and fans who wish Maliszewska the best.

– I am calm about Natalia – she has been given her natural environment and thanks to this she will get a chance to write her Olympic history. I am asking for faith and support and it will be all right – Jaworski ends.

Here, after the end of the 1000 m qualifying round, Maliszewska will start in the relay finals (1.45 pm Polish time). Here, a promotion to the fight for medals would be a sensation. The Polish women will go with the Dutch, Chinese and Italian women and only two teams will enter the finals from both finals.