Telemark rider and “Farmen” profile Trym Nygaard Løken (29) ended up in a frightening and life-threatening situation while he was on his way to the ski slope.
On the way, the 29-year-old felt pain in his stomach, which turned out to be far more serious than ordinary stomach cramps.
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Rushed to hospital
It was TV 2 who mentioned the matter first. Løken was at a ski meeting with the national team in Tux in Austria when he felt severe pain in his stomach.
The telemark skier assumed that this was a normal stomach ache, but the roommate and the ski association became concerned when the pain would not go away.
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– I was lying on the bed and thought it was a normal stomach ache that would go away. Then it just got worse and worse, I lost a bit of contact. It hurt so much that I lost a little sense of where I was, explains the 29-year-old to Se og Hør.
TRANSPORTED TO HOSPITAL: The athlete was flown by air ambulance to the hospital. Photo: Private, reproduced with permission Show more
The roommate and the union called the ambulance, and finally the athlete was transported by air ambulance to the hospital in Scwatz.
– I was put on a stretcher and given morphine and strong painkillers so that I could talk. I was flown straight to the hospital.
Løken’s theory was appendicitis, but it would turn out to be far more extensive.
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– We entered the hospital and I was wheeled into a separate room. Then the doctor came and we took CT images. I was told that everything looked fine and there was nothing dangerous. But this was Sunday last week and there was no radiologist at work, but they got hold of them and they looked at the pictures as well.
In the end, the radiologists arrived at what was wrong with Løken. He had an intestinal loop in his colon.
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– Then they came in and said: “You have a big, serious problem”.
– How serious was it?
– He said: “This is life-threatening, and that it must be treated right away”. It’s an operation they’ve done many times, so I could be confident about it, but I had to be aware that complications could arise along the way.
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This was an unexpected message for the skiing star.
– The first thing I said was: “You have to get a roommate and sports manager so there are more people who hear this”. He tells it, and at first I think I’m not sure if I believe it. After all, he first said that everything was fine, and then it turns into something completely different very quickly. But we conferred with doctors at home, the insurance company’s doctors and everyone agreed that we had to do this now, he explains, and adds:
– Then we had to accept it, no matter how awkward it was.
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– Totally awesome
What Løken thought about most was the ski season, which now seemed to be in great danger.
– That’s the first thing that strikes me. I have had quite a few injuries over the past few years with operations on both shoulders and cruciate ligaments recently. I had a good comeback season and had a very good charge for the first time in years, injury free into the start of the season, broke personal bests. It’s quite late in my career now and I felt very ready, also there was that bang.
SCAR: The onion has a scar on his stomach after the operation. Photo: Private, reproduced with permission Show more
The 29-year-old says that he has taken every precaution to avoid unnecessary injuries in the run-up to the season, and avoided risks in training.
– You will also be sidelined again by something I have zero control over. It’s absolutely awesome. It is very boring. It’s my life, it’s what I do.
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– Could have gone quite a lot 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 present.
– If I’m lucky, I’ll be there at the end of the season. But all goals of taking an overall victory in the World Cup and everything I’ve worked for are fading very quickly. That 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 gone a lot worse than it did.
Nygaard Løken, Tom Evensen and Vidar Helseth. Photo: Tor Lindseth/Se og Hør Show more
– You should really be happy that you can run a ski season next year.
Løken is still in the hospital in Austria, and is scheduled to return home on Monday. But due to a leak from the surgical wound, they will have to reassess on Monday morning.
The 29-year-old believes this experience is something many can learn from.
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– 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 ski association who pushed me.
The 29-year-old has a successful skiing career behind him, and has, among other things, won gold in the parallel sprint and silver in the sprint during the World Cup in cross-country skiing in Switzerland in 2021.
He has also won gold in classical during the WC in Rjukan in 2019. In 2017, he also became known from the screen when he participated in the thirteenth season of “The Farm”.
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2023-12-10 18:54:04
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