Just three weeks after a heart operation, the Norwegian biathlete Ingrid Landmark Tandrevold started again. The 28-year-old took 15th place in the 7.5 km sprint in Oberhof and was overjoyed after the competition.
Ingrid Landmark Tandrevold is back. In Oberhof she finished a strong 15th in the first race after her heart operation.
“It was cool to be back after just three weeks,” said Tandrevold on “ZDF”: “It’s almost unbelievable to have this feeling again so quickly.”
The Norwegian made two shooting errors in her comeback. She felt very good on the cross-country ski trail, but shooting didn’t go particularly well, the Norwegian continued.
Surgery on the heart
Shortly before Christmas, Tandrevold had a thin catheter inserted through the blood vessels directly to the heart in a minimally invasive procedure. The Norwegian association announced this. At the start of the season in Kontiolahti, the top athlete left due to cardiac arrhythmia. She therefore missed the subsequent races in Hochfilzen and Le Grand Bornand.
After Ingrid Landmark Tandrevold made her cardiac arrhythmia public at the biathlon weekend in Kontiolahti in early December, there was much speculation about potentially serious consequences. Some outsiders even discussed a possible end to the 28-year-old’s career.
Tandrevold: “Not dangerous”
The Norwegian then made a detailed statement about her health problems and assured that they were made bigger than they actually are. She confirmed this before the World Cup weekend in Oberhof.
“I spoke so openly about the challenge and my cardiac arrhythmias because I learned that a lot of misinformation was being spread about it,” Tandrevold said in an interview with the Norwegian broadcaster “TV2”.
“My cardiac arrhythmias are unpleasant, but certainly not dangerous,” she made it clear. “I don’t want people to misunderstand it as a heart attack, for example. It’s something completely different,” she explained. What Tandrevold also admitted: “It affects my job and is frustrating.”
Source: www.sport.de
