Skier suffers frozen penis and urges others stay away from sport
Athletes can suffer many different injuries but Calle Halfvarsson described his latest setback as ‘terrible’ after suffering a frozen penis. The skier was competing at a 20km World Cup event in Rika, Finland, which is inside the Arctic Circle.
The chilling temperatures were all too much for the 34-year-old who is glad he is about to welcome a second child amid fears for his manhood. “I have frozen my penis. For real. Damn, I had to lie in there [warm-up tent] for ten minutes to warm it up,” Halfvarsson told Swedish publication Expressen.
“It hurts so damn much. It’s terrible. It’s lucky that I’m going to have my second child because this is going to be difficult in the future if I’m going to continue like this. Asked if he could describe the pain, Halfvarsson, who urged others to stay away from the sport, replied: “No. Those who know, they know.
“But you should get a tip from me. Stay away from it, because it is the worst thing you can experience.” According to Reuters, temperatures dropped as low as -15 degrees Celsius at the start of the race.
Norway’s Jan Thomas Jenssen won Sunday’s 20km race, ahead of Czech Republic’s Michel Novák in second and teammate Harald Østberg Amundsen in third. Halfvarsson crossed the line 18th and no Swede finished higher than him despite the pain he was experiencing.
This is not the first time the skier has suffered from having such a bizarre injury. He even considered quitting the sport when he initially experienced it in 2021. “The worst I’ve been through? It was in Finland once,” he told Aftonbladet.
“Then it was really cold and I did not freeze on my fingers or feet, but I froze on another thing. That was the worst thing I’ve been through. Then I thought about whether I should stop skiing. It was… during the competition. I was barely getting to the finish line. It was unbelievably cold.”
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The same thing happened to Finland’s Remi Lindholm at the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing. At the end of a 50km mass start race, he needed to apply a heat pack to the sensitive area. The 25-year-old, like Halfvarsson, had also previously experienced the injury while competing in the bitterly cold town of Ruka.
“You can guess which body part was a little bit frozen when I finished (the men’s Olympic 50km race),” he told Finnish media during the 2022 Winter Games. “It was one of the worst competitions I’ve been in. When the body parts started to warm up after the finish, the pain was unbearable. It was just about battling through.”
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