'I made the wrong decision,' Hyrox athlete who soiled herself in race tells BBC
Australian Hyrox athlete Joanna Wietrzyk says continuing to race after suffering a bout of diarrhoea during a competition in Beijing was the wrong decision, in an exclusive interview with the BBC.
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Australian Hyrox athlete Joanna Wietrzyk has said she made the wrong decision when she continued to race after soiling herself during a competition in Beijing.
Speaking exclusively to the BBC, she suggested her determination to win the race in September had clouded her judgement.
Roughly halfway through the event last month, Wietrzyk suffered a bout of diarrhoea, and images of faecal matter on parts of her body were widely shared online.
"I didn't really think about those around me… the decision that I made in hindsight was the wrong decision and I'm truly sorry for everyone that I did affect," she told the BBC.
The athlete also spoke about the effect of the social media reaction following the incident. She said she should not have received "such backlash" and that she is "only human".
Wietrzyk's comments come after widespread online discussion of the race, which took place in Beijing in September.