A dilemma awaited Mirela Rahneva after narrowly missing the Olympic skeleton podium on Saturday in Beijing.
Posted at 5:57 p.m.
The Ottawa athlete was in front of a Pizza Hut fast food counter. “We are offered ten points. And I have two options, either an exclusively cheese filling or a mixture of a bit of everything,” she says in a cheerful tone when joined by The right. Two hours earlier, the 33-year-old finished fifth just 1.53 seconds from a bronze medal. We know athletes who would have been disappointed, frustrated and even dejected by such an outcome. Some would even have refused an interview. Not Rahneva.