The crazy heart threatened to stop the career of Johan Olsson

In the book "The courage to choose their own way," the Olympic champion for the first time speaks to heart problems'' in the summer of 2012 that have earned him a bad fright and could prevent him from taking the World Championship gold in 50'' km of Val di Fiemme

Thursday 21 November 2013 2 minutes reading time

"Vague VÃ¤lja eget Spar ', which will be released in bookstores in Sweden next week, reveals the difficult times experienced by the 33 year-old long-distance runner who suddenly found himself in a hospital bed d'' with electrodes attached chest beats that is at rest squirted from 50 to 110, compared to the normal value (for him) of 35. It took 15 hours before the pulse returned regular and stable. The news paper Expressen, which first has been able to read in advance the publication, highlighted some parts of the story of Johan Olsson. "Usually'' s hospital always told me:'' You'll be all right.'''' This time when the nurse took my hand, I felt tension in the room and I knew that he would hurt" . The examinations of the following days have highlighted problems of tachycardia, a disorder in most cases harmless and that affects many people. The fear was the real enemy with which to contend. After consulting all the top experts in the country and received the ok to resume training'' and the'' agonistic activity at a high level,'' thanks to the help of his wife and former colleague Anna Olsson and mental trainer Path Wiklund (both have participated in the drafting of the text) was able to overcome negative thoughts that at first he had been lead to'' consider the hypothesis of the withdrawal.

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