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In the past, he was hailed as the king of skiing in the tracks.
Today, Torgny Mogren lives with excruciating pain.
– It’s so fucking scary. Actually crazy, he admits to Expressen.
During the late 80s and early 90s each Torgny Mogren Swedish skiing king and excelled in cross-country skiing. He won four World Cup golds, two of them individual in the five-mile, and salvaged an Olympic gold in Calgary in 1988.
Mom’s problem
After his active career, Mogren has remained in the world of skiing and his voice is heard in Radiosporten, where he works as an expert during the skiing broadcasts. But alongside the radio broadcasts, he battles mysterious problems within his body and now he opens up about the fear of death.
Already in 2021, he was forced to undergo an emergency heart operation where they opened up the entire chest, after a heart valve stopped working. Six months later, the next worry came when he contracted covid – and his body took serious damage.
“I will die”
At the World Ski Championships in Planica last year, Mogren collapsed after a harmless ski trip in his spare time. The former skiing hero still continued the championship as an expert, but immediately when Torgny got home he sought medical attention and then it was going to end very badly.
– They entered through a vein in the neck and down into the heart to test some stuff. But somehow they hit a nerve – and the heart began to race. It felt like it was beating 400 beats a minute. I just shouted straight out: “Now something is happening! Now, now, now…” I felt like I’m going to die any second. It was really scary. And a while later the same thing happened again, he tells Expressen.
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But the doctors were unable to find what the problem was and still today the skiing icon lives in great uncertainty about what is wrong with his body. Because there is something that is really not right and he clearly notices it in his everyday life.
– If I tried to go up Monsterbacken in Falun, I wouldn’t get more than 10-20 meters. Then there is a cross stop. It’s enough to walk a little fast up a flight of stairs and I get lactic acid all at once. It’s so fucking scary. Actually crazy, he admits in the interview.
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Torgny Mogren was there during the Tour de Ski and can overlook the pain to do his job properly. But the fight against the heart problems then continues at home in Sweden.
– When I get home from the Tour de ski, there will be new examinations. But if it finds nothing wrong with the heart, it must be something else. Maybe the lungs. I just want them to find what’s wrong with me, he says to the evening newspaper.
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