{"id":198453,"date":"2022-02-21T01:18:37","date_gmt":"2022-02-21T02:18:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=198453"},"modified":"2022-02-21T08:59:25","modified_gmt":"2022-02-21T08:59:25","slug":"olympic-skier-suffers-frozen-penis-during-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=198453","title":{"rendered":"Olympic skier suffers frozen penis during race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Finnish skier Remi Lindholm suffered the most unfortunate of injuries thanks to the below-freezing conditions in Beijing during the Winter Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>The 24-year-old says his penis froze while competing in the men&#x27;s cross-country event, despite the race being delayed and shortened to help combat the weather.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/basketball\/nba-all-star-game-2022-josh-giddey-earns-praise-from-lebron-james\/478bfc75-dd2b-47d4-9283-2fdb822f82a5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>LeBron James praises Aussie rookie Josh Giddey&#x27;s &#x27;beautiful basketball&#x27;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/nrl\/the-mole-pre-season-trials-highs-and-lows-brisbane-broncos-kevin-walters-adam-reynolds\/eac44068-6aec-4d1b-86e7-1ccd39a7a565\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Kevin Walters no closer to solving major Brisbane Broncos dilemma<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/tennis\/novak-djokovic-says-hes-at-his-peak-returning-to-tour-in-dubai\/58fdbe02-8fbe-43d1-96cd-a3908199ef94\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"\"><strong>Djokovic fires warning to rivals ahead of return to ATP tour<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Organisers decided to slash the distance from the standard 50km to 28km, and delayed the start time by an hour in the hope the temperature would rise.<\/p>\n<p>But it seemingly did nothing for Lindholm or his private parts, which clearly didn&#x27;t enjoy the minus 17 degrees on the gauge.<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"db917ebb-88e4-4056-89cf-b66868ba6643\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/db917ebb-88e4-4056-89cf-b66868ba6643\" alt=\"Remi Lindholm of Finland in action competes during the men&#x27;s 15km classic cross-country skiing during the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics.\" data-width=\"4000\" data-height=\"2668\" \/><\/p>\n<p>He took an hour and 16 minutes to cross the finish line in 28th place.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;You can guess which body part was a little bit frozen when I finished,&quot; Lindholm later revealed.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;It was one of the worst competitions I&#x27;ve been in. It was just about battling through.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;When the body parts started to warm up after the finish, the pain was unbearable.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Remarkably, it&#x27;s not the first time Lindholm has suffered the injury.<\/p>\n<p>He believes his penis froze while competing in Finland last year, too.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by<\/em><\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/login.nine.com.au\/login?client_id=wwos&amp;redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwwos.nine.com.au&amp;newsletter=true\" title=\"clicking here!\"><strong><em>clicking here!<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Finnish skier Remi Lindholm suffered the most unfortunate of injuries thanks to the below-freezing conditions in Beijing during the Winter Olympics. The 24-year-old says his <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=198453\" title=\"Olympic skier suffers frozen penis during race\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198453"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=198453"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198453\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":198455,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198453\/revisions\/198455"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=198453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=198453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=198453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}