Covid prevented skeleton racer Katie Tannenbaum attending the opening ceremony or training and she finished last, but she has kept on smiling
Katie Tannenbaum of the US Virgin Islands celebrates after completing run three of the skeleton in Beijing.Katie Tannenbaum of the US Virgin Islands celebrates after completing run three of the skeleton in Beijing.Last modified on Sat 19 Feb 2022 08.01 GMTthis year from the US Virgin Islands, and the first they had sent since 2014. She had been fighting to reach the Winter Olympics for some time.
So the team improvised uniforms, and got a volunteer to carry the flag. And then just before they entered the arena,, they video-called Tannenbaum so that she could be a part of it. “I was watching excitedly on TV from my isolation room when they called me just as they were about to walk out. My coach told me that this moment was for me, that we wouldn’t be at the Games without me, and thanked me for getting us here. I was in tears.
Tannenbaum decided to race, and was eliminated after the third heat, placed last, with a combined time a massive 12.69 seconds off the lead of the eventual gold medal winner Hannah Neise of Germany. “When I consider how close I came to not having any option, to not being able to even be a part of the race, it makes it easier to accept and to choose to be grateful,” she reflects.
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