Olympic champion Svindal diagnosed with testicular cancer
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Within a short period of time, four Bundesliga footballers fell ill with testicular cancer. Now one of the big stars of winter sports is speaking out: Norway’s Olympic champion Aksel-Lund Svindal is also ill. At the first suspicion, he went to the doctor – lucky, as he says.
“The past few weeks have been different.” With these words, former Norwegian ski star Aksel Lund Svindal begins a message on Instagram. In the following lines he makes his testicular cancer disease public. He felt a change in his body but wasn’t sure what it was or if it was anything at all, the 39-year-old wrote on Saturday.
“But I decided to have it checked,” reports the two-time Alpine Olympic champion. “I went to see a doctor and was quickly taken to the hospital, where the doctor’s suspicions were confirmed. testicular cancer.”
Most recently, four players in the Bundesliga were diagnosed with testicular cancer. Jean-Paul Boetius from Hertha BSC was diagnosed with a tumor on his testicles last Tuesday. The professional was operated on Friday.
This had previously affected Timo Baumgartl from 1. FC Union Berlin, Marco Richter (Hertha) and Sebastien Haller from Borussia Dortmund. Baumgartl and Richter have already celebrated their comeback on the pitch.
Immediately after his suspicion to the doctor
At Svindal, tests, scans and the operation went very quickly. “And after the first week I knew that the forecasts looked very good,” he writes. He owes all this to the first decision to go to the doctor immediately after his suspicion. And that’s exactly why he talks about it. To draw attention to this disease.
He was “very grateful for the public health system in Norway”. Svindal did not provide any information about further treatments or rehabilitation.
The Norwegian ended his career in 2019 with silver in the downhill at the World Championships in Are, Sweden. Svindal had won gold in the Super-G at the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, eight years later in Pyeongchang, South Korea, in the downhill. In addition, the speed specialist was world champion five times and won the overall World Cup twice.