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Athletics: Lotta Harala’s Achilles tendon completely ruptured
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Athletics: Lotta Harala’s Achilles tendon completely ruptured

From Helsingin Sanomat · () Finnish

Translated from Finnish and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

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  • Retired Finnish hurdler Lotta Harala said she completely ruptured the Achilles tendon in her left leg during warm-ups at last weekend’s Sweden-Finland athletics meeting.
  • Harala, 34, had planned to compete in what she expected to be the final race of her career but instead underwent surgery.
  • She said her rehabilitation will take about a year.

Lotta Harala’s final planned race ended before it began when she ruptured the Achilles tendon in her left leg during warm-ups at the Sweden-Finland athletics meeting last weekend.

spinning

— Lotta HaralaShe described what she remembered from the moment she was injured.

The 34-year-old retired hurdler confirmed the diagnosis in an Instagram post, saying the tendon had snapped completely. Photos showed her posing in a hospital bed and on an operating table after surgery.

Harala said she remembered only “spinning” on the ground after the accident and telling herself that she could still run the hurdles. “Well, I really couldn’t have,” she wrote, adding laughing emojis.

Well, I really couldn’t have

— Lotta HaralaShe joked that she would not have been able to run the hurdles after the injury.

She thanked people for the many messages and comments she had received and said rehabilitation would take about a year. “A different start to a new life than I had planned, but certainly an instructive one lies ahead,” Harala wrote.

A different start to a new life than I had planned, but certainly an instructive one lies ahead

— Lotta HaralaShe described the year-long rehabilitation ahead.
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Originally published by Helsingin Sanomat in Finnish. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.

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