Port Adelaide Brownlow medalist Ollie Wines has been subbed out of his side’s AFL contest against Hawthorn with heart palpitations.
Wines sank to his haunches when nearing a passage of play late in the first quarter of Sunday’s match at Adelaide Oval.
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The Power star then slowly made his way to the interchange bench with about a minute remaining in the term.
It was unknown at the time why Wines was taken out of the game when the Power pulled the trigger.
“We certainly didn’t see any injury, so when we saw that he’d been immediately subbed out, we were thinking, ‘What has happened?’” Campbell Brown said at half time.
“Fingers crossed that he’s OK and he’s not going to miss an extended period of football with this.”
But Channel 7’s Mark Soderstrom confirmed the former skipper was experiencing heart problems — and not for the first time.
“If you remember back a couple of years ago, I think it was about April 2022, it was a Thursday night game, and Ollie Wines came off with heart palpitations,” he said.
“He had it checked and then the following week or so afterwards, they talked about it being an issue that was quite common, particularly amongst older people and elite athletes, where essentially it’s an arrhythmia where his heart goes out of whack.
“A lot of dizziness and a lot of nausea associated with it — it can come in different forms.”
Wines also experienced heart palpitations during a game against Melbourne in 2020.
He was also subbed out of that game and sent to hospital, where a heart irregularity was diagnosed.
The 2021 Brownlow medallist said he felt dizzy and nauseous during the game against Melbourne.
“It’s more a heart rhythm issue that is pretty common in elderly people and elite athletes,” Wines said at the time.
“’Once it was explained to me it was very reassuring and there’s not too many long-term effects.
“The prognosis is really positive … at this stage, it’s not a big issue.
‘It was (scary) during the game.
“And then after the game when I went off to hospital and they rushed me off when they saw something was wrong, but the … staff, the cardiologist and nurses there were so reassuring and really put my mind at ease.”
– With AAP
