Monday, August 24, 2009

Falk Cierpinski: Tough battle against the side stitches

Carefully Falk Cierpinski takes a breath. Nothing. Then something stronger. And there he is again, the pressure in the liver. Although no comparison to the hellish stitch, which was three days ago, his constant companion at the Berlin World Cup Marathon. But it remains this dreadful uncertainty. The question burning on his mind: What goes crazy in the body?

Cierpinski reacted quickly to the problems on Saturday. After the race he was chauffeured by his father and coach Waldemar directly into an army hospital in the capital. "For two hours, the doctors put me on the head. They have examined my internal organs, have done everything possible to me," says Falk Cierpinski. It was an anxious time. Then came the relieving response. "My body system is well developed. On the one hand," he says, "I was very pleased. The marathon career will continue in any case. But then I'm in the dark. Now we must go the causes stabbing to the bottom of the page."

A quick clarification of her needs. As early as the beginning of October begins the basic training for the next peak, the European Championship in late July next year in Barcelona. In the highly specialized field of sports medicine Bundeswehr hospital in the Lower Warendorf is the marathon runner can still check-up this week. The Halle is three months' back-member army. The writing of him to be examined in an institution of the covenant and to treat.

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