Finnish cross-country skier Remi Lindholm suffered a curious injury during his last Olympic competition. His penis froze on the track – not for the first time.
Actually, Remi Lindholm should be used to bitterly cold temperatures. Not only because he comes from Finland, where the thermometer likes to show values well below freezing. The 24-year-old is also a cross-country skier and therefore constantly trains in icy conditions. However, the external conditions at the Olympic Winter Games in Beijing were also too harsh for Lindholm: his penis froze.
In the men’s 50-kilometer race, it was up to 20 degrees below zero, and the organizers have already reduced the distance to 30 kilometers due to the extreme cold. However, that was enough to make Lindholm’s best piece so cold that nothing worked anymore. “You can imagine what was frozen when I crossed the finish line,” the Finn told press representatives at the finish.
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Lindholm finished the race in 28th place, the gold medal went to Russia’s Alexander Bolschunow. “It was the worst competition I’ve ever run,” said the Finn. “I just fought my way through.” After that, however, things got even worse: Thawing the frozen limb after 1:15 on the Zhangjiakou track proved to be extremely painful. “I held a heating pad to my balls,” reported the 24-year-old from the small Finnish town of Vuokatti. “As it warmed up, the pain was unbearable.”
The example of another athlete shows that the freezing cold can be a real health problem. World-class Slovenian biathlete Jakov Fak suffered third-degree frostbite on his right index finger at the 2012 World Cup. At the Olympics he canceled his start: “I could hardly feel my fingertips, that’s a big problem when shooting. I’ve never run in such cold weather.”
After starts over the 15 kilometers in classic style, in the skiathlon and the 30 kilometers in the mass start, Lindholm now has time to recover from the problems. However, the problem is not entirely new to him. According to the Reuters news agency, the same mishap happened to him downstairs at a World Cup race in Ruka, Finland last November.
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Source: Stern
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