Azizulhasni Awang, from an open heart operation to the Champions League

These days it is debated on Berlin Velodrome (Germany) the second stop of UCI Track Champions League track cycling after the opening meeting of Majorca (Balearic Islands). Behind each of the cyclists competing at the Berlin Velodrome there is an interesting story, but few quite like that of the Malaysian track cycling star Azizulhasni Awang. Also known by the nickname ‘The Pocket Rocketman’Awang savors the sweetness of victory in Olympic Gameswho aspires to be his country’s first Olympic champion, but he also knows what it’s like to receive bad news and see how, at this moment, everything around him is falling apart, how his dreams and the all the efforts made on the track and off it are useless.

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Awang, bronze medal to Rio de Janeiro 2016 Olympic Games and silver to 2020 Tokyo Olympicssame as Keirin modalityreturned to compete 14 months after he underwent an emergency open heart operation, as he himself recalled to ‘Eurosport’.

“When I had a CT scan, the surgeon operated on me as soon as possible,” news he found difficult to accept. “I was very down sometimes, I had to go through some really low times, and in the first few months I was down, but I was very lucky to have my husband and my team and to have a great surgeon,” she explained.

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Through this Instagram account Property Pity He explained the reason for his open heart surgery. He explained that when he was diagnosed with his heart condition he was not familiar with it, although he knew that “there are cases of sudden death in some athletes”, he recalled the recent case of the Argentine soccer player who played for Barça If Aguero and on the way to the operating room, he detailed his illness: “The heart also needs enough oxygenated blood. to function properly, the heart also has its own special blood vessels. There are two blood vessels in the heart, the right and left, which we call the coronary artery, right and left. The chance of getting this condition is less than 1% of the entire world’s population. It’s very unusual for this….”.

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After the operation, Awang commented that his deficiency was congenital, from birth and not a product of high-performance sports and the stress it caused, also recalling how he realized something was wrong: “It all started when returning I was in training after the Olympics, I felt severe pain in my chest and I have never experienced such a situation. My husband was worried and insisted that I go straight to the hospital because the symptoms were like a heart attack. I was in the ER for almost five hours , I was they did several tests and the results did not even show that he had a heart attack. There was no increase in troponin – a type of protein found in the heart muscles – in the blood, which is one of the signs of having a heart attack heart. But the doctor in the emergency room saw something quite different in the graph of my electrocardiogram results. When I first learned that I had this condition, the cardiologist was shocked. H he stopped and said to me: ‘someone is looking after you and you are very lucky’. Fortunately, the operation was a success.”