Biathlon legend Pichler: “I was dead for three minutes”

“I was dead for three minutes. That's what the doctors say. Then they brought me back to life with resuscitation,” the 65-year-old German told the Münchner Merkur . Pichler had been in a coma for three days. “I didn’t notice anything about it. But for my wife, my children and my brothers it was just brutal,” he said: “In the morning I set off on my bike, later the police suddenly appear at the door and say to my wife: Your husband is probably dead.” “I realized that I was extremely lucky” Wolfgang Pichler Pichler survived - and has “already become humbled. And really humbly. I realized that I was extremely lucky. If that happens to me when I'm alone, it's over. When you survive something like that, you believe in something,” he said. He “already believes in God. And I also think: I just wasn't ready yet. Otherwise there is no way that so many coincidences that saved me would come together.” Pichler is already working again The week after he woke up from the coma was “horrible” for him, says Pichler: “You hallucinate, you initially see ghosts.” The long-standing Swedish successful coach is now working again. At the IBU World Federation he belongs to a group “that is supposed to set up an academy for coach training. And then I continue to have a director position in the Swedish Olympic Committee. And I also have a consulting contract with the Swedish biathletes.” “I’m glad I’m experiencing the lockdown at all” Wolfgang Pichler Pichler sees the current Corona situation as a “catastrophe” for sport: “But that’s just how it is. You have to get through that. And if you've had something like me, you see it differently anyway: I'm glad that I'm experiencing the lockdown at all.

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