Polish world and European champion victim to mobbing? “I was the subject of attacks. I guess that through my disability”
– We used to go somewhere together, I sat on the front, just behind the driver. The “trainer” loudly commented on this fact, asking if I closed the bus door well, because if I fall out, you would have to come up with a new category for me – Justyna Franieczek, Paralympijka, athlete, world and European champion own plot.
Paulina Socha-Jakubowska, “Wprost”: You wrote on the web that “I urgently need funds for rehabilitation and preparation for the next games in Los Angeles”, therefore she must sell the plot. Is it that bad?
Justyna Franieczek: I want to prove to myself and others that I will undergo rehabilitation and return to sport, I will go to the next games. I decided to survive this whole evil. I found myself in a difficult life situation. In connection with the injury, I lost sponsors and almost all financing. Complicated regulations excluded my financing in connection with outstanding sports achievements, i.e. for winning the runner -up of Europe in the 4×400 MW relay of Sweden in 2024, because one of several criteria was not met.
Our financing system has flaws.
If someone has an injury, they can’t not receive money. Most give up. Of course, even financing from the ministry covers only half of my needs. We promote Poland abroad, we win medals. We often pay extra for this because it is our passion. People must know that the costs of supplementation itself, the care of the physiotherapist, doctor and trainer are over 8,000. PLN per month. The groupings are from 4 to 6 thousand. zloty. In addition, equipment, fuel, cushioning, food and basic social protection, such as renting an apartment.
Therefore, there will certainly not be masters on a mass scale.
To implement preparations I have to sell the property. Everything I have. But I do it to be able to hear Mazurek Dąbrowski.
In general, your story is a story about a continuous fight.
14 years ago I survived a car accident, the doctors said that I could forget about running. They advised me to focus better on walking, because it could be my real problem. Although I have 30 percent damage to health, I didn’t give up. My return to sport lasted every day, day after 8 years. Only after 12 years I reached a zero point. Disposition from before the accident.
I had one motivation, I wanted to represent our country. And although in my life I have experienced the loss of pregnancy, serious surgery, and now injuries and I have to be rehabilitated, because after years of void, the hip refused to obey, I will not give up. I lost everything and started from scratch many times. I will win, even if it was associated with the sale of my only personal property – the plot.
I have never earned sports. I added my private money that I had thanks to additional work.
