Olympic champion rowing Emily Regan She decided to go public with what she is convinced was a coronavirus infection. Her message: if it can happen to me and my teammates, it can happen to you.
Regan and 11 other American T-shirts tested positive for the virus or were presumed to have it due to symptoms in the spring. Olympic three times Megan Kalmoe She also published that she had the virus in March and was ill for two weeks.
All 12 rowers in the Olympic national team group had trained, before showing symptoms, at the national team center in Princeton, NJ. All 12 recovered, they said Matt Imes, US Rowing High Performance Director.
The Princeton Center is best known for producing the largest American sports dynasty during the previous three Olympic cycles.
The US eight-row women’s team won all 11 Olympic or World titles between 2006 and 2016, a race that improved the US men’s and women’s basketball teams. The streak finally broke in 2017. A story Key next year will be whether the Americans can regain first place and extend their Olympic streak to four consecutive titles.
Now, it will also be a show, which includes ships of eight and smaller, returning from a terrifying spring.
Regan and coxswain Katelin Guregian They are the only Americans who participated in all eight boats for the Rio Olympics and all of the 2017, 2018, and 2019 World Championships.
Regan, in a lengthy Facebook post, wrote that she and her teammates between the ages of 23 and 37 contracted coronavirus symptoms days after a US national team staff member tested positive in late March. .
“As most of my teammates started to recover from their acute symptoms of COVID, I started to notice a fever on April 1,” wrote Regan, 32, a four-time world champion dating from 2011. “That was on the 12th day of my quarantine. “
On April 3, Regan woke up from a 12-hour sleep with respiratory pain and pain throughout her body.
“As if he had done something really wrong while practicing the day before,” wrote Regan, who, like her teammates, had been training alone since ordering to stay at the New Jersey home on March 21. All 12 rowers began showing symptoms after leaving Princeton Training Center due to the order to stay home, Imes said.
Regan’s fever intensified, ranging from 100.4 to 101.7.
“I couldn’t walk up the stairs without sitting down and taking a nap,” he wrote. “Not only did I sleep 12 hours that night, but I also took a 3-hour nap. I was too weak to cook for myself all day until I forced myself to make pancakes that night because I knew I had to eat something. “
After two days of the worst symptoms, Regan needed the rest of April to be able to train normally again.
She went through rowing periods on a machine to the rhythm of an average high school girl. She felt like she was carrying an additional 50 pounds while exercising.
“As of today, more than 3 months after my symptoms disappeared, I am working to regain the way I was in early February and March before all setbacks,” he published on July 7. “I have teammates who have been dealing with COVID complications for more than 2 months.”
Regan did not perform a coronavirus test, but a subsequent antibody test was positive.
Imes said Monday that three female shirts were positive and another nine were presumed positive, confirming a Buffalo News report.
“We had reduced the size of our group and stopped rowing in team boats,” Imes said, according to the newspaper. “We stopped rowing on eights and four legs. We narrowed it down to two people or less. We were doing social distancing. We had taken our training outside. We weren’t using boathouses as much. We were doing what we thought was prudent and following all the guidelines and really doing more than what we were asked at the time. “
Regan considered herself a low-risk person. You can’t remember your last time in a bar or other crowded place. For much of the past decade, she focused on being in the best shape possible to be selected for one of the strongest Olympic programs in the United States.
“If you don’t think the virus is that important because you are young, healthy, or fit,” he wrote, “please consider my story.”
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