He has been on sick leave for at least a week since the long race last Saturday.

Both feet are tightly bandaged and there is constant throbbing and pain.

There is a risk that he will lose his big toe completely.

He has a hard time accepting that thought.

- There are many thoughts buzzing in my head now, and especially if I lose my big toe.

The injuries are deep in the toe, and doctors say they do not know if it will live or not.

In the worst case, it will rot by itself.

Only time will tell what happens, he tells NRK.

29-year-old Eklöf, who finished 59th in the race, has suffered a necrosis injury that caused cell death.

Calls for greater responsibility from the organizer

- I'm in a lot of pain.

I can 't put on a pair of shoes or anything, and I've just been inside.

I work as a salesman in addition to being a skier, so I will be on sick leave, says Eklöf who thinks that the organizer would have taken greater responsibility and not handed over that decision to the individual skier.

- In the World Cup in cross-country skiing, you do not compete when it is so cold and there the skiers would have started anyway if they had not been stopped.

Now you have to ask yourself the question of what you can do in the future so that it does not become like this, says Eklöf.

Now awaits a time of examinations by specialists to save the big toe.

- If I were to lose my toe, I do not even know what it means.

One can only say that I have no idea.

I do not want that to happen.

There are so many thoughts spinning, and I do not know.

I'm scared of the toe.

And it knocks in my feet all the time, says Eklöf.