Telemark racer and ‘Farmen’ profiler Trym Nygaard Løken (29) ended up in a scary situation while on his way to the ski slopes on Sunday last week.
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On the way, the 29-year-old felt pain in his stomach, which turned out to be much more serious than normal stomach cramps.
He rushed to the hospital
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Loken was at a national team skating meet in Tux, Austria when he felt severe pain in his stomach.
The Telemark skier assumed this was normal stomach pain, but his roommate and the ski association became concerned when the pain didn’t go away.
-I was lying in bed and thought it was a normal stomach ache and it would go away. Then it got worse and worse, and I lost a little bit of contact. It was so painful that I lost a little sense of where I was going, the 29-year-old explained to Dagbladet.
The roommate and the union called an ambulance, and the athlete was finally transported by air ambulance to the hospital in Squatz.
Transported to hospital: The player was transported by air ambulance to the hospital. Image: Own, reproduced with permission
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– I was put on a stretcher and given morphine and strong painkillers until I could talk. I was taken directly to the hospital.
Locke’s theory was appendicitis, but it turned out to be much more comprehensive.
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We entered the hospital and I was transferred to a separate room. Then the doctor came and we took CT scans. I was told that everything seemed fine and nothing serious. But it was Sunday of last week and there was no radiologist at work, but they caught them and looked at the images too.
Eventually, radiologists figured out what was wrong with Lukin. He had an intestinal loop in his colon.
Intestinal loop is a condition in which the intestine spins around on itself in the same way as if you were twisting a garden hose. The result is that the intestine is compressed so that intestinal contents cannot pass. This often leads to severe abdominal pain, according to NHI.
– Then they came and said: “You have a big and serious problem.”
– How serious is this?
He said: “This is life-threatening, and must be treated immediately.” It’s a procedure they’ve done many times, so I can be confident about it, but I had to be aware that complications might arise along the way.
This was an unexpected message for the skating star.
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– The first thing I said was: “You have to have your partner and your sporting director, so there are more people who hear this.” He said that, and at first I think I’m not sure if I believe it. After all, he first says that everything is fine, and then turns into something completely different very quickly. But we consulted with the doctors at home, and the insurance company doctors, and everyone agreed that we had to do it now, he explains, adding:
It should be kept dormant: Onions should be kept at rest for eight weeks. Image: Own, reproduced with permission
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– Then we had to accept it, no matter how embarrassing it was.
– Absolutely stunning
What Loken has thought about most is the ski season, which now appears to be in serious jeopardy.
– This is the first thing that catches my attention. I’ve had quite a few injuries over the past few years while recently having shoulder and cruciate ligament surgeries. I had a good season coming back and I had a really good performance for the first time in years, I wasn’t injured at the start of the season and I beat my personal best. It’s late in my career now, and I felt so prepared, and there was also this explosion.
Scar: Onion has a scar on his stomach after the operation. Image: Own, reproduced with permission
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The 29-year-old says he took every precaution to avoid unnecessary injuries in the lead-up to the season, and avoided risks in training.
-You’ve been put on the sidelines again because of something you have no control over. It’s so cool. It’s so boring. It’s my life, this is what I do.
– It could have been much worse
Now the telemark runner must remain calm for eight weeks before he can start training carefully again. But the hope and motivation are still there.
-If I’m lucky, I’ll be there at the end of the season. But all the goals of achieving an overall win in the World Cup and everything you worked for are fading away very quickly. This is the hardest thing to swallow. But I have to remind myself, and I have people around me who do too, that it could have been a lot worse than what happened.
-You must be really happy that you can manage next year’s ski season.
Loken remains hospitalized in Austria and is scheduled to return home on Monday. But due to leakage from the surgical wound, they will have to be re-evaluated on Monday morning.
The 29-year-old believes this experience is something many can learn from.
– It’s a lesson for many, at least for me: Stomach cramps are not always just stomach cramps. I had no plans to call an ambulance, it was my roommate and the skating federation that pushed me.
Varmen Gang: From left: Nygaard Lokken, Tom Evensen, and Vidar Helseth. Photo: Tor Lindseth/See og Hour
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The 29-year-old has a successful skiing career behind him and, among other things, won gold in the parallel sprint and silver in the sprint during the 2021 Cross-Country Skiing World Cup in Switzerland.
He also won the gold medal in classical music during the WC in Rjukan in 2019. In 2017, he also became well-known on screen when he participated in the 13th season of “The Farm”.
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