Having been a great athlete does not prevent suffering from age-related health problems, and can even exacerbate them. Former figure skating champion Philippe Candeloro knows something regarding it.
Guest of the show At Jordan’s, broadcast on the C8 channel this Monday, February 13, the now retired athlete reported recent health problems due to osteoarthritis.
« In two and a half years, I had two hip prostheses. One right, one left. There’s no more room for the 3rd, that’s what I told the doctor before he put me to sleep on the operating table! But joking aside, I had osteoarthritis in my hips. Forty-two years of practice, inevitably, it leaves traces “, he detailed with the TV host Jordan De Luxe.
Cardio vs Mechanical
« Excessively, sport still does damage “, underlined Philippe Candeloro at the microphone of C8. And the skater continues with more detailed explanations: “ They say you feel good when you play sports, it’s true because physiologically, in terms of cardio, if you have a trained heart, you’ll have a better chance of living longer. On the other hand, mechanically, as long as there is the muscle which is there, which reinforces all the joints which take shocks, that is fine. But when you get older… […] At one point, the body, at 50, it cannot react the same way as when it is 20 ».
If he began his career at the age of 8, to stop competition at the age of 26, Philippe Candeloro continued figure skating for years, via Galas, shows, and even a “ comedy on ice » in 2012. Pirouettes, somersaults, complex figures… The sportsman has therefore only recently stopped skating in spectacle.
