“It breaks my heart but unfortunately I won’t be able to compete this year. I got the opportunity to have the surgery/threading done for my heart arrhythmia and felt like I had to go for it for a more successful season. It was supposed to be one week but unfortunately it’s now been 10 days and it is just taking a little longer to heal up.”

It affected her during the 2018 CrossFit Games for the first time ever during competition, read more:

Annie Thorisdottir Suffered a Heart Arrhythmia During CrossFit Games Event ‘Chaos’

Annie Thorisdottir talked about the surgery in an earlier post on her instagram account.

She will still attend the event with her boyfriend Frederik Aegidius, who is competing.