Karina Safina: “My health problems prevent me from doing what I love and living the life I desire. For two years, if not more, I’ve been trying to regain my health, and the most disheartening part is that it’s all been in vain.”
Georgian figure skater Karina Safina about her health issues.
original source: Instagram
Karina Safina is the 2022 World Junior Champion in pair skating. Together with Luka Berulava they represented Georgia. In 2023, their partnership ended, and Berulava began skating with Anastasia Metelkina.
Today Karina posted on her Instagram about her health issues, here’s a translation.
“Today, 08/21/2024, marks yet another visit to the doctor, I’ve lost count at this point. For two years, if not more, I’ve been trying to regain my health, and the most disheartening part is that it’s all been in vain. A lot of money, time, effort, patience, and most importantly, nerves have been spent. And no one knows how much more I still have to go through. How have I not lost all hope and faith yet?!
I used to not understand the value of the phrase ‘the most important thing we have is our health.’ Yes, I am alive, but my health problems prevent me from doing what I love and living the life I desire. Tears, fear, anxiety, misunderstanding – that’s what has been living with me for a long time, and it’s really hard.
I am an athlete! And I am an athlete who hasn’t finished her career! I am an athlete who has made her mark in the history of figure skating. Yes, I haven’t won the Olympic Games, but at least I have been there.
I want to say that I am very committed to our sport and never anticipated such a turn in my career. And unfortunately, I am not the first or the last to experience this. You go all your life towards one goal, you strive, you overcome yourself, you endure pain, you try to be needed, but at some point, you stumble and… fall.
And no one knows how long you’ll be falling into this pit. Many will think that you’ve given up, that you’re weak, that you’ve resigned yourself and just left, but no one knows that all this time you’ve just been recovering your health to return to the sport!
I will try until the end. Of course, no one guarantees success, but I have proven more than once that I can overcome difficulties.
Some might write to me now that I can’t do anything, that I am nobody, that I am whining, and that I am a “hurt little girl”… And I could believe that, but only I and my loved ones know what I have gone through and am going through now.
P.S. I am not asking for pity, understanding, or any kind of judgment. I just can no longer and do not want to remain silent,” Safina wrote.
Related topics: Karina Safina Luka Berulava
Karina, take care of yourself. At the end of the day, figure skating is just entertainment and circus for the others. It’s not worthy your pain;)