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Olympic Skier Describes 'Unbearable' Pain Of Freezing The One Thing You Wouldn't Want To Freeze

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Published 13:31 20 Feb 2022 GMT

Olympic Skier Describes 'Unbearable' Pain Of Freezing The One Thing You Wouldn't Want To Freeze

Olympic skier Remi Lindholm has dubbed a race at the Beijing Games 'one of the worst competitions I've ever been in'.

Hannah Smith

Hannah Smith

An Olympic skier has dubbed a race at the Beijing Games 'one of the worst competitions I've ever been in' after a particularly sensitive body part froze during the contest. And yes, it's exactly what you think it is.

We're all used to numb fingers and toes after a few hours out in the cold, but Finnish cross country skier Remi Lindholm revealed that the weather during the men's mass start race yesterday, February 19, meant that another appendage also suffered from the icy weather.

Remi Lindholm (Alamy)
Remi Lindholm (Alamy)

'You can guess which body part was a little bit frozen when I finished,' said the 24-year-old in a hilariously honest admission, telling Finland's Olympic broadcaster that he'd been left needing to thaw out his penis at the end of the event. 'It was one of the worst competitions I’ve been in. It was just about battling through.'

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With any luck, the majority of people reading this will never have experienced the pain that Lindholm went through in the name of Olympic competitive spirit, but the Finn made it pretty clear that it's not something to be taken lightly.

'When the body parts started to warm up after the finish, the pain was unbearable,' he recalled, telling journalists from his home country, 'I stuffed a heating pad on it. It helped. It took maybe 15 minutes.'

Incredibly, it's not even the first time this has happened to Lindholm, with the skier admitting that he'd previously suffered a frozen penis in a similar incident during a race in Ruka, Finland last year.

You'd think that cross country skiers would take precautions to ensure important body parts aren't left exposed to the elements during races, but according to the New York Post, it's often quite the opposite case, with the lightweight skin suits and under-layers used in races offering surprisingly little protection.

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Remi Lindholm (Alamy)
Remi Lindholm (Alamy)

That being said, conditions during the Olympic race were especially brutal, with howling winds and snow storms leading organisers to shorten the length of the race from 50km to 30km, no doubt preventing more penises from succumbing to the arctic conditions.

Lindholm finished 28th in the event, but apparently the skier is concerned that his commitment to finishing the race, frozen penis and all, may cost him in the future.

In response to a question from a journalist about whether he thought he'd still be able to have children after suffering not one, but two frozen penises, Lindholm replied glumly, 'No, I don't.'

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Featured Image Credit: Alamy

Topics: Olympics, Sport

Hannah Smith
Hannah Smith

Hannah is a London-based journalist covering news and features for UNILAD. She's especially interested in social and political activism and culture.

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