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Finnish skier suffers frozen penis

Remi Lindholm of Finland admitted to suffering a frozen penis after the shortened 50 km mass start race at the Beijing Olympics. (Credit: LEHTIKUVA / MARKKU ULANDER / GETTY IMAGES). The Olympics are always filled with interesting, heartwarming and sometimes bizarre storylines. On Saturday, Finnish cross-country skier Remi Lindholm suffered a frozen penis during the men’s 50-kilometre mass start race in Zhangjiakou. “You can guess which body part was a little bit frozen when I finished,” he… Source link

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U.S. skier suffers scary crash

YANQING, China — U.S. skier Nina O’Brien crashed across the finish line in her second Olympic giant slalom run here on Monday, sending gasps throughout an audience that included many fellow racers. Doctors and emergency responders tended to her on the icy snow for almost 10 minutes, before dragging her away from the finish area on a stretcher. O’Brien, though, was not only “alert and responsive,” according to a U.S. ski team spokeswoman. She was “calm,” “worried about delaying… Source link

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Breezy Johnson, top U.S. skier, withdraws with injury

Breezy Johnson was an Olympic medal favorite in the women’s downhill. (Photo by JURE MAKOVEC/AFP via Getty Images) Breezy Johnson’s journey to the 2022 Olympics began with a ruptured ACL, continued with more torn ligaments and a pandemic, and brought the bubbly American skiing star “some of the lowest points of my career and life.” But, she said, “also some of the biggest highs.” As the Games neared, Johnson began accelerating down European mountains, faster than she ever had before. She… Source link

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