“Skidskyttehjälten: They stopped my heart”
“In the summer, thought Torstein Stenersen that everything was over.”
“the Athlete sat quietly at the kitchen table and saw the pulse commute between 45 and 110.”
“– They needed to stop my heart and start it again, ” says 30-year-old.”
“the Distance was 7.5 miles and took 19 minutes. The whole of the Swedish stafettsegern in skidskyttets world cup went in just over an hour.”
“But Torstein Stenersens trip is three years long and so bumpy that he reasonably ought to have come here.”
“– Yes, for me it was an extremely big victory. It came tears. I lay in the snow, and had to fight to keep them inside. Relief, joy, to see that I can be it here.”
“in the Summer of 2014 was the Norwegian-born gutten american citizens. He had lived in Östersund, sweden the whole of his adult life and found it natural to compete for his new country. The first winter he came seventh in a VC-races, his career was on the upswing, but during a tour with fyrhjulingen in the jamtish forests damaged the jaktintresserade 28-year-old.”
“was fastened firmly in the leg and neck.”
“– The soaring to the sky and I landed up and down. It felt serious at once, I could not manage to keep me going. My partner called an ambulance, ” he says.”
“– They took x-rays and then released on the other stuff. Three-four sjuksyrror said that it seemed to have gone well. They saw the picture and said, ”no, we’ll probably lock you up again”.”
“Torstein wanted to know more. Have you seen something? Your back is damaged? He was asked to wait on the doctor.”
” They restrained me in the feet, legs, and neck. I was in a fucking sillburk and thought my life was over. I watched everything pass, skidskyttet, to even be able to go, it was really terrible.”
” It was a kotkompression in the lumbar spine and fractures on both sides. It was pretty bad tillknycklat.”
“Was discharged without a diagnosis”
“In consultation with the doctor relinquished Stenersen operation in order to undergo extensive rehabilitation. He needed to rest. But ten days after he had been near total paralysis trained, he for the first time, indoors with a belt on the stomach.”
“– Would I fall again, it would be devastating. It was not required much for it to become wheelchair. But I was determined, I had not done mine, so I continued. But sometimes I have to remind myself to be happy that I stand up.”
“2016u002F17 rattled he just four points in the world cup. In a relay race 2017u002F18, during the standing shooting, beating anything in the body of the from and Torstein masade in the goals at a snail’s pace. He went to a hospital in Germany but was discharged without a diagnosis.”
“in the Summer of 2018, the approaching 30th anniversary and the athlete did not understand what had gone wrong. In the several years he had talked daily about their two goals, the OLYMPIC games 2018 and world CUP in 2019, now it was the one spolierat and the other is in danger. “
“Was he sick? Why was the body so strong in the summer, but betrayal for the winter?”
“”the Curve was like a christmas tree””
“Seated at his kitchen table in Östersund, sweden, he felt his heart rush.”
“– I had spend the entire evening snack at nine o’clock when it began to feel strange. I looked at the clock and saw that the pulse jumped. 70, 60, 90, 60, 50. It danced between 45 and 110.”
” I thought that it was wrong on the clock. It works not? I got to pick up a heart rate belt, it is safe, but there it was the same thing so…”
“– I landed in bed and fell asleep. Thought it would be gone in the morning. I would be on the band at seven in the morning and drive one hour intervals and it you don’t want to miss. It takes time to get a workout indoors. So I stuffed myself with breakfast, and debated what I would do.”
“What showed pulsklockan then? “
“– the Curve was still like a christmas tree. Up and down.”
“‘ Would stop my heart””
“Stenersen skipped training and went to the emergency room. After extensive testing found the doctors what probably had poured cold water OS-dream.”
“– The noted the flicker of the förmakarna. The same as bradley had. It just says stop when it strikes. It had early been going on for a few seconds, now it was not even over to sleep.”
“– they said They would anesthetize me down, stop the heart, take hjärtstarten and restart it to get it in rhythm. It was a bit scary, but the doctor said it like it was nothing.”
“– do I Need relatives? Survive I here?”
“So what happens now? Is all you can do is to hope that it does not return?”
“– Yes, it is unfortunately so. Should I operate, I get to go on blood thinners for a month and then be gone two-three months. Then the smoke coming season.”
“It was a belly flop””
“To autumn relieved, he amount of training and enlisted the help of ex-athlete Henrik Nilsson.”
“– Man is constantly on the verge of bouncing over, so it comes to staying on the right side. Sometimes it can hang on a single pass, which makes it wiggling all over. The body has been much more energetic in years, ” he says.”
“It was last Friday when Torstein Stenersen was ranked 62 in the sprint despite the full shooting. “
“– A belly flop. It just went slow from the start. I couldn’t make any tempohöjningar and it just got heavier. Therefore, I was quite nervous for the relay.”
“How was it to give out on tredjesträckan in the day?”
“– Peppe did it well, Martin did it well, he was now in second. When did the thoughts spin. Now the bastards have it work. And it was a totally different body. It was fun to be out there. I had time to think, ”what the hell – how could I go so slow on sprint?””
“”the world CUP is almost everything for me””
“He’s back to the tears in the snow. The joy, the relief, the recoveries of faith in yourself. He can’t win.”
“Now Torstein Stenersen six race weekends in the world cup to prove that the strong tredjesträckan was not a one-time event, that the new approach has lifted him a notch.”
“the Seventh of march 2019 begins the biathlon world CUP in Östersund, sweden. Where to be a several year long skumpfärd finally going into the goal.”
“– the OLYMPICS was not, it is my life’s biggest nedtur. Now I have a bit of transparency in the organising committee and believe that the world CUP will be the largest held in history. It gets crazy powerful. There is sights. The world CUP is almost everything to me.”
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