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February 14, 2012
Barbro Holmberg rushed to Florida hospital
Published: 8 Dec 09 17:25 CET | Double click on a word to get a translation
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/23734/20091208/
Tiger Woods' Swedish mother-in-law Barbro Holmberg is reported to be in a stable condition after being admitted to a Florida hospital in the early hours of Tuesday morning.
- Elin Nordegren's mother in surprise US trip: report (7 Dec 09)
- 'Elin should use a driver next time': Parnevik (3 Dec 09)
- Elin Woods did not club Tiger: lawyer (2 Dec 09)
She arrived at the hospital via ambulance in the early hours of Tuesday morning after a 911 emergency call was placed from the Woods mansion outside of Orlando.
"She's doing well under the circumstances," a source told the Expressen newspaper.
"It's not life-threatening."
Holmberg, Sweden’s former migration minister and current governor of Gävleborg County in eastern Sweden, is in the United States with her daughter Elin Nordegren amidst an ongoing scandal involving a number of alleged infidelities by her star-golfer son-in-law.
Media outlets in the United States have been speculating for much of the day about who exactly was whisked away from the Woods estate. The woman, seen in video footage shot by a local television station, was described as being a middle-aged female with blonde hair, spawning theories that it was likely Holmberg who had taken ill.
A spokesperson for Holmberg confirmed on Monday that the governor of Gävleborg had cancelled all her appearances for the week and had taken leave from her post.
The news of Holmberg’s hospitalization comes following reports that Nordegren has moved out of the Windmere mansion she shares with Woods and their two children and has decamped to another house in the area.
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Oh the rumor mills could go crazy on this one too...
ha ha
Now let's sit back and wait for all the natural born Aryan brotherhood residents to chime in on this one.
(hope she gets better though)
The reason why the media loves these stories is so often the PR people representing the star fallen from grace do such a poor job of damage control making the whole situation worse.
Tiger needs to bring levity to the situation and now. A well written script where he hosts Saturday Night Live addressing the issue could be one solution.
He is an athletic superstar. This was always probably a question of when and not if as it if for most people in his position.
It is interesting to see how the wheels in motion are playing out....Tiger can still salvage most everything...I don't think he is relegated to pitching his "Tiger Driver Series" a 10" strap on and female pleasure device quite yet...although there are probably a adult toy companies waiting in the wings ;-)
May Allah gives happiness unity to all of us and bring peace to this world (Ameen)
Christmas is nearing, and no one needs this dissension--especially the children.
I read posts here that mistakenly point fingers at Elin, yet there are no reports of her being guilty of infidelity but many such regarding Woods.
However that might be, this is still a family issue and as such is no one's business but their own.
I know that this is difficult for some of you who post here, but even you can somehow summon-up some sense of common decency and allow the matter to rest.
"May Allah gives happiness unity to all of us and bring peace to this world"
Afraid the only peace Elin and Barbro are looking, for is a piece of Tiger's hide.
good bye elin hello all the beautiful women in the world?
lets hope it doesnt affect him on the course and he gets back to winning those last 5 majors. men like him are not put on this earth to be parents and family men, they are put on this earth to be winners.
good luck tiger!
I feel sorry for the little kids!
Very mixed kids too so they're bound to develop identity problems as they get older.
A vicious circle has been created.
I only wear sneakers on the racquet-ball court, and you can be sure that those are not Nke, and I wear good leather shoes for street-wear and formal wear and leather boots in other endeavors, except where rubber boots would be a better choice. I also do not ever wear ball-caps, and I would not be caught dead in sweat-pants or a t-shirt outside of a gym, so I am not a part of that particular anima.
Whatever sporting successes that any media intensive athlete accrues come naturally under the sport's world's, and their fan' s, purview--and that is simply logical.
Your idea that their personal/ private life also fall under that same heading is illogical.
You think your driver is better than Tigers?
Looking at some pictures of her in the tabloids, she looks quite scary. This is Elin in 28 years... Run, Tiger, Run!!!!!!
and an ambulance rushed complete with IV fluids and all for food poisoning??
If Barbro was in a socialist country, after eating a tainted sausage, The other person in the line would have said:
Oh, that's food poisoning, take Kaopectate, drink a lot of fluids and call us in a few days, if things don't improved.