Finnish cross-country skier suffers 'frozen' penis while competing in Olympic race
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- Cross-country skier Remi Lindholm, 24, competed in a 30km race at the Winter Olympics on Saturday.
- Lindholm told Finnish media his penis became frozen during the race, according to Reuters.
- Lindholm said he used a heat pack to help thaw out the area after the race ended.
Finnish cross-country skier Remi Lindholm experienced a "frozen" penis while competing in an Olympic race, Reuters reports.
Lindholm spoke about the issue with the media following the men's 30km mass start race at the Beijing Winter Olympics on Saturday, according to Reuters.
Although organizers delayed the race by an hour and cut the distance from 50km down to 30km due to weather conditions, Reuters reported, the 24-year-old spent just under 76 minutes skiing in "howling, freezing winds."
"You can guess which body part was a little bit frozen when I finished," Lindholm told Finnish media, according to Reuters. "It was one of the worst competitions I've been in. It was just about battling through."
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The news organization added that Lindholm said he used a heat pack to try and thaw out the area once the race finished.
"When the body parts started to warm up after the finish, the pain was unbearable," he said, according to Reuters.
According to Reuters, it's not the first this has happened to Lindholm, who experienced a similar incident during a 2021 competition in Ruka, Finland. Lindholm did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.
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At this year's race, Lindholm finished in 28th place out of 61 competitors with a completion time of 1:15:55:6, according to statistics published on the official Olympics website.
Alexander Bolshunov and Ivan Yakimushkin of the Russian Olympic Committee came in first and second place, respectively, while Simen Hegstad Krueger of Norway took home the bronze medal.
Lindholm also competed in the men's 15km classic and the men's 15km + 15km skiathlon at this year's Winter Olympics, coming in 45th place out of 99 competitors and 25th place out of 70 competitors, respectively.