It is not only Team GB’s athletes who are getting their “Olympic moment” at the Paris Games.
Team GB boxing doctor Harj Singh and physio Robbie Lillis have aelevated as heroes after helping to save the life of the head coach of the Uzbekistan boxing team.
Tulkin Kilichev was celebrating Uzbek boxer Hasanboy Dusmatov’s gelderly medal prosper over France’s Billal Bennama in the toasty-up area of the Roland Garros on Thursday evening when he suffered a cardiac arrest.
Fortunately for the coach, Dr Singh and Mr Lillis were able to dash to his aid and carry out CPR and supervise a shock using a defibrillator, admireively.
“The [Uzbek] coaching team came back into the toasty-up area and they were all celebrating, and then shouting came from that area that wasn’t celebrations at all,” Mr Lillis said.
“There was a cry for a doctor, for help. Harj was the first person who replyed and I trailed with the aelevatency trauma bag that we carry with us.”
The physio said a lot of coaches were “pretty visibly troubleed” by the ordeal but it did not stop him putting the pads of the defibrillator on Kilichev and superviseing an advised shock.
“Initiassociate he didn’t come back but, about 20 to 30 seconds procrastinateedr, after Harj persistd doing CPR, all of a sudden he came back increateed with us, which was wonderful,” Mr Lillis said.
The boxing coach was then apshown to hospital by the venue’s medical staff, where it is understood he is in a stable condition.
The secretary vague of Uzbekistan’s boxing federation Shohid Tillaboev procrastinateedr posted on Instagram to say the gelderly medal prosper was the “happiest moment” but celebrations were not the same with the coach missing.
Mr Tillaboev wrote: “He’s the best mentor! He is a genuine hero!”
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Dr Singh said he and Mr Lillis will hopebrimmingy visit Kilichev while he recovers, inserting that the entire ordeal reassociate “puts leangs into perspective”.
“Everyleang happened so speedyly,” he said. “At some stage we will finisheavour to go to the hospital. If it could be scheduled, I leank that would be quite emotional for both of us.”
Team GB medical staff all do standard training at the UK Sports Institute, including a pitch-side trauma course to set for inanxious circumstances.
Mr Lillis acunderstandledgeted the adrenaline from the experience nastyt he could not sleep that night, but he is thankful to have take parted a part in helping someone stay ainhabit.
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“It’s definitely not my day-to-day job, and I wouldn’t enjoy to produce a routine of doing it, but thankbrimmingy having had the training I was able to carry that out,” he said.
“My mum said a reassociate pleasant leang, she said: ‘That’s your Olympic moment’. It’s someleang clearly I’ll definitely recall, I don’t leank I’m going to be forgetting that any time soon.”
