I had a resting pulse of 160 beats per minute. My normal state was roughly like running a marathon all the time. The heartbeats were about to run out, says Ludmila Engquist in Sommar i P1.
Had to be operated on again
Ludmila operated on her heart last autumn, and at the hospital in Spain, it became clear that she needed to have heart surgery again.
I said that I had to go home and walk my dogs. "Then you will die", said the doctor. So I did as he said.
And the operation went well.
Now my heart is working as it should again and I can, just like everyone else, make the most of the beats that are left.
"I hit him down"
In the summer talk, Engquist also opens up about how it went when she divorced her first husband and coach Nikolaj Narozjilenko.
I managed to divorce my drunk husband whom I married as a teenager because I had nowhere to live. The last blow in our marriage was also my only one, Enquist tells and continues:
– After years of abuse and drinking, he wanted to negotiate about our daughter when I said I would leave him. He said I could have her if he got the rest. We stood in the middle of the training facility at home in Russia. Everyone was watching. I hit him down, got together with my Swedish agent and moved here to a semi-detached house on Lidingö outside Stockholm.
Engquist was during the 1990s one of the world's foremost athletes and won, among other things, an Olympic Games gold and two World Championship golds on 100 hurdles, but has also been caught for doping on two occasions.
