U.S. sprinter English Gardner says her lengthy fight with COVID-19 earlier this spring left her body in shambles. She had muscle cramps and leg pain. Headaches. Swollen joints. Full-body rashes. Extreme fatigue. Respiratory problems.
"It's been terrible," Gardner said in a news conference Tuesday. "If I can really be honest with you guys, it's been really, really terrible."
Gardner, who won a gold medal at the 2016 Rio Olympics as part of Team USA's 4x100 relay team, said she contracted COVID-19 less than two months ago, in late April. The 29-year-old experienced what she described as "long-hauler symptoms" and said she really hasn't felt like her normal self until this week – when she'll try to book her ticket to Tokyo at the U.