WHISTLER, British Colombia - halfway through Saturday's almost 30 km race at the 2010 Olympic Games here, Kris Freeman was trailing leader of just six seconds and dream to make history. Since 1976, an American had won a medal in cross-country skiing.
Getty Images US Alpine skier Kris Freeman managed his insulin while competing.Suddenly, but his energy into the ground to a halt and it reduces. Mr Freeman, lying in the snow, a wall that have made available, not for its competitors called on for a very special kind of help. "Sugar," he said.
Mr Freeman may seem unusual as a 29 year old athlete with diabetes. Inactivity and poor nutrition are the published twin culprits behind an epidemic of diabetes in America.
But Mr Freeman suffers actually type1 or "Juvenile," diabetes, a disease that usually early in life thrown by an auto immune disorder rather than lifestyle. As prices of diabetes type 2, or "adults," in the United States explode due to obesity and physical inertia is a culture of extreme exercise in type 1 diabetic, replete with specialized trainers and enforces training camp.
"The crazy perception out there is that if you have diabetes, you should have weighed 300 pounds," says Michelle Adams, an area of Chicago exercise physiologist, type 1 diabetics and trainer for an organization called diabetes training camp, which supports and promotes athletics in people with diabetes. "In fact, there are thousands of type 1 diabetics, who were always active and who are now compete in marathons and half marathons, all the way to the Ironman Distance Triathlon."
Type 1 diabetics produce little or even no insulin, a hormone that regulates blood sugar, require to inject themselves with the substance while constantly presumptuous equivalent. Have in endurance exercise was noise because it can dramatically help manage their disease. But win events – in fact, sometimes the cross finish line - can be difficult for competitors struggling to control your blood sugar.
For diabetics, Mr Freeman athletes is a hero, even more so for what happened crashed after his blood sugar on Saturday. Never mind that this setback to win his dreams of Olympic medal this day broken. After downing a sports drink and sugar-rich "goo Pack" - trainers who happen to the nearby - Mr Freeman climbed on skis and the race, 45th place rushed him by a German completed. "I was no did emergency exit' next to my name in the Olympics have" Mr Freeman said in an interview on Sunday.
Still finishing only was not a question of pride. As a type 1 diabetic compete in Olympic endurance event, Mr Freeman is a pioneer - this means that small guide exists to control blood sugar during this race as a diabetic's.
In fact, if Mr Freeman was diagnosed before nearly a decade with diabetes, said his doctors him he almost certainly should stop in the competition. But he refused, and since the medical science has moved his way. Doctors advise a keen eye on blood sugar diabetes of all kinds to carry out the more the better increasingly if it considers the athlete and consults regularly with their or your doctor.
Adam wife says she has heard, professional endurance trainer diabetics better matched to describe your body than other athletes. "An athlete with diabetes type 1 is required a degree of discipline actually an edge over Nondiabetics can give you", she says.
Matthew Corcoran, diabetes training camp, one of the founders said in an e-Mail, that athletes such as Mr Freeman have demonstrated, diabetics at the highest level to compete - and are now shed light on exactly how to do this and on how much exercise for less talented diabetics could be advisable.
Lord is not the first U.S. Olympian with diabetes. Gold medalist Gary Hall Jr. is a type 1 diabetic. He swims Sprint distances that take often less than a minute. A ski-cross country skiing race on the other hand can last hours and Mr Freeman to decide to deliver what level of insulin itself at every kilometer. The amount can vary according to factors as recognizable as height and unrecognizable as the pace skiers set by the candidate countries Pack.
On Saturday, Mr Freeman had expected a faster pace. Stop mid-race reprogram his insulin delivery system is not in question, as it would take too long. "Out I here not to cross the finish line," Mr Freeman said on Sunday. "I'm here to win a medal."
Saturday finishing a purpose was to gather information. So had he fixed, as he thought too high his insulin dosage before the race? To test the theory, it consumes large amounts of sugar in the second half of the race and even after that his blood sugar level was normal found - specifying the excess insulin.
This information is Mr Freeman dial down the amount of insulin he to himself while his final event provides 50 km race on Sunday. In this distance finished 12 in an international race once Mr Freeman, led him to see a podium finish on Sunday as possible.
A three-time Olympian, Mr Freeman is the U.S. ski team as its best distance cross country performer since Bill Koch, its second Olympics 1976 America his medal in the sport deserves dominated described by Europeans.
A New Hampshire native, Mr. Freeman joined the US cross country team in 2000, the University of Vermont left after his first year.
Well not consider cross-country skiers - regarded as the world's strongest athletes - often peak in their 30s to Mr Freeman Vancouver end his Olympic Road. When it completes, but he wants to analyze and publish the diabetic teaching of career. On behalf of the pharmaceutical giant Eli Lilly and co., manufacturer of insulin he used that it promotes the value of exercise for diabetes already. Mr. Freeman says that about half of its sponsorship income with diabetes is related to products.
Understanding the he in how to: control, blood sugar while long bouts of exercise could offer would be invaluable, says wife of Adam, the diabetes exercise trainer.
Too much insulin during exercise blood sugar that caused failure of a kind Mr Freeman Saturday experienced Rob. To little insulin, blood inundated with sugar: muscle cramps and dehydration caused leave. "The idea is to imitate the blood sugar of the diabetic person," she says. "It is not easy, but we learn that it's doable."
Write toKevin Helliker at kevin.helliker@wsj.com.
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