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Olympic Champion Engquist Admits to Deliberately Being Caught Doping in 2001

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Ludmila Engquist, a former Soviet, and later Swedish athlete, revealed her reasons for using performance-enhancing drugs in her autobiographical book.

Enпqгist began her sports career in athletics, where she became an Olympic champion and a two-time world chᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚampion in running. She late✅r switched to bobsleigh, aiming to become the first woman to win medals at both the Summer and Winter Olympics.

In her book, set to be released on September 13, the 60-year-old Enqvist confessed that she hated ꦅbobsleigh but felt unable to leave the sport b𓄧y herself:

I hated bobsleigh. It was a nightmare—before, during, and after training. Day and night. I couldn't admit that I wanted to quit training because I was scared and overwhelm🐲ed. There was no way back; the stakes were too high at every level. I wanted to get caught so I could end this madness and free myse🔜lf from the fear.

Ludmila Engquist

Engquist tested positive for doping a year before the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, after which she ended her career. Previously, in 1993, she had already been banned for two years for violating anti-doping rules, during which𒈔 she accused her husband and coach Nikolai Narozhilenko of mixing banned substances into her medicine.

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