It recently became known that four-time Olympic champion in cross-country skiing Raisa Smetanina was admitted to intensive care.
According to available information, the famous athlete was sent there after she suffered a stroke.
In particular, the head of the Ski Racing Federation of the Komi Republic, Konstantin Sobyanin, told MIA Rossiya Segodnya about this.
She had a stroke, and now she is in the hospital in Syktyvkar, in intensive care, said the sports official.
According to him, doctors have stabilized the famous skier's condition, but are not yet giving a prognosis.
Raisa Smetanina is 72 years old and is an Olympic champion (she won four times).
In addition, she won 5 silver medals and one bronze medal at the Olympics.
She also won four world championships, became a four-time silver medalist, and has four bronze medals from world championships.
Raisa Smetanina is the first athlete in history to win ten medals at the Winter Olympic Games.
