
“I hold my hands up, I should have handed them back and not had pictures done but I was feeling unwell and spaced out and not thinking clearly.”

“I was tired and jetlagged and felt sick,” said Zakrzewski, who added that she had flown in from Australia the night before the race. When Zakrzewski crossed the line she was given a medal and a third-place wooden trophy and posed for photographs, the BBC reported. I made sure I didn’t overtake the runner in front when I saw her as I didn’t want to interfere with her race.”

“I agreed to carry on in a non-competitive way. “When I got to the checkpoint I told them I was pulling out and that I had been in the car, and they said ‘You will hate yourself if you stop,’” Zakrzewski said.
