Maliszewska’s nightmare continues. Moving confession: I’m gonna need help

On Wednesday it ended its participation in. In the 1500-meter competition, the Pole was definitely not a favorite. And unfortunately its quarter-final race confirmed it. Although Maliszewska stayed in touch with the leader for 1000 meters, in the last meters she fell down and dropped out of the group fighting for the promotion to the semi-finals. In her race she took 5th place, which means that she lost the chance to fight for a medal.

Before the competition, Maliszewska wrote in the social media that the distance of 1500 meters is nothing else than three times 500 meters, which is its crowning distance. In an interview, she admitted that she had tried to tune in well before the competition. – I have nothing to grab on to laugh for a moment. After our team run, I feel like everything is flowing out of me. For a week I was pretending and trying to convince myself that everything was fine. I knew the girls needed me and I wanted to be a pillar of the team. But the following days were getting tougher. I was laughing that I was on an unpleasant vacation. The form was pulled down, from which it is difficult to disengage. Mental fatigue is more severe and difficult. I know how the head affects what happens to the body, said the skater.

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Natalia Maliszewska experienced a drama during the Games. Shortly after her arrival in China, it turned out that the Pole had obtained a positive test for presence. The day before the start of her crowning competition – the 500-meter race, she was informed that she would not start. During the night, however, she was released from isolation and it seemed that she would be able to take part in the qualifying rounds. Unfortunately, during the morning training it turned out that the result of the next test was positive again and the Pole was excluded from the competition.

Maliszewska couldn’t stand it in front of the camera. “When I can’t control my crying, it starts to worry me.”

Maliszewska admitted that she received a lot of support not only from her team but also from her rivals. However, the whole Games turned out to be a mental nightmare for her. – No words will return these moments to me. I knew I could endure a lot because I was working on it. I had a lot of different scenarios in my head, but I think that whatever psychologist I would not work with, no one would set me up for the fact that I would have to go through what I have experienced now – she said Maliszewska with a breaking voice.

– I know that there are many things that keep coming back and that I can’t cope anymore. I am on the ice and such thoughts come to me, will I really have to wait another four years for such a race? Who will I be in four years, what will I do when I get older? I will be 30 years old at the next Olympics, and when I think about it, I just laugh. But maybe it’s never too late to catch your dreams, she continued.

– End of the end, what is happening to me and my head will sound very bad, but this is the second thing that struck me so much after my mother died. And it is not easy. But I hope to get out of this. I know I will need help though. At the beginning I thought “you are strong, you can do it”. When I am not able to control my crying, it starts to worry me – Maliszewska said with tears in her eyes.