Before the Olympics many people held out hope that Kris Freeman, who had an outside chance at landing a medal at the Games, would rise to the top of his sport and show the world what an athlete with Type 1 diabetes is capable of, according to an article from the Burlington Free Press.
Instead, a wrong turn helped land him in 59th place during his first race and a low blood sugar event put him out of commission for two and a half minutes during his second race, dropping him to 45th place. In his final event on Sunday, the 29-year-old Freeman did not finish the race.
Sunday’s race was the longest of the three at 50k. The decision to pull out of the race was made by Freeman’s coaches, who told the skier that if he was out of the race early on to stop because of injury concerns. He stopped after the 20k marker.
“It’s been an exhausting two weeks,” Freeman is quoted as saying in the BFP article. “I have no real answers why the first race went to so bad. I have no real answers why the second race went so bad. And (Sunday) I was just exhausted.”
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