Finnish cross-country skier Remi Lindholm ended his Olympic debut with minor injury to his tools…and we’re not speaking about his skis.
“You’ll be able to guess which physique half was just a little bit frozen after I completed,” the 24-year-old athlete instructed Finnish media after the boys’s 50km begin free occasion, his final race at the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics on Saturday, Feb. 19, in line with Reuters.
After the race, which was shortened to 30km, Lindholm headed to a locker room, the place he used a warmth pack to thaw out his crotch. “When the physique components began to heat up after the end, the ache was insufferable, Lindholm instructed Finnish outlet Yle Sport, nonetheless shaking.
In keeping with Reuters, Lindholm spent over an hour navigating the ski course in howling, freezing winds.
“it was one of many worst competitions I have been in,” the outlet quoted Lindholm as saying. “It was nearly battling via.”
And this isn’t the primary time the skier has suffered a frozen penis throughout a contest. Final yr, he underwent an identical incident in a cross-country snowboarding race in Ruka, Finland. He instructed Finnish newspaper Iltaheti that the Olympics course was icier.Â
