A few months ago, 18-year-old Meolie Jauch ended her gymnastics career for mental problems. Now the fun of gymnastics is back – and the success too.
The gymnastics fans in the Dresden Arena were amazed on Friday. The uneven bars became a friend of a gymnast. Meolie Jauch from the Swabian Schönaich harmonized with the device, and she achieved an error -free, impressive exercise. She stood her departure without wobbling, her face formed into a radiant moon, and then she ran full of happiness in the arms of her trainer Ghazal SeilSepour. “I went to the device with a smile and with a smile from the device. My bar exercise went very well, as I hoped for it,” she said. Her exercise brought her the daily maximum rating on the uneven bars with 13,400 points. Jauch is the best in the individual finale on this device on Saturday (from 3 p.m./live in the first) – before all -around master Karina Schönmaier.
Also on Saturday morning, Jauch was still touched by the experience in the hall. “The whole day was somehow surreal and magical,” she said to SWR Sport. “I wasn’t so excited because I was well prepared and didn’t put so much pressure.” She had been doing the exercise on the uneven bars three times in the Bundesliga and was therefore very safe. “I could really enjoy it,” she says.
I used to have a lot more pressure and always feel that I have to deliver.
Meolie Jauch, gymnast
But was that really the Meolie Jauch who had declared her resignation from gymnastics on December 18 last year? Who had talked about mental problems? With her words, she had also encouraged other top gymnasts to go public. As a result, numerous gymnasts allegations of abuse at the Kunst-Turn-Forum in Stuttgart And later public at the base in Mannheim.
Social media contribution on Instagram: Meolie Jauch with her trainer
In her Instagram post, Jauch found clear words: “My everyday life was subordinate to the gymnastics,” she wrote. Jauch was considered one of the big German gymnastics hopes. When she came to the Kunst-Turn Forum in Stuttgart, she developed into a flagship gymnast, won eleven youth championship titles, medals at European Youth Championships and World Cups. But behind this brilliant success career, physical and mental states of exhaustion are hidden.
The high expectations of the environment
She had completely prescribed her young life to the performance gymnastics. With high loads there was little time for relaxation. The body sent signals. Back problems and finally a cruciate ligament rupture forced them to phases of rest and rehabilitation. The young athlete felt the expectations of her environment. “It was no longer my own will that drove me, but the feeling of having to come back for everyone else.”
Finally, the decision matured to end your career. “I listen to my inner voice and end top -class sport. Not because I don’t want to fight anymore, not because my body can no longer – but because it is no longer mentally,” she said at the time. The gymnasium, her home for a long time, gave her no feeling of security. She looks forward to trying out new things and exploring the world as a Meolie, she said. At that time she deliberately emphasized her great love for gymnastics and left open whether she might be “at a different level” again.
Jauch and her trainer – an emotional bond
Jauch initially needed distance from the performance gymnastics. Then one day she stopped by in the training hall of TS Neckargym Nürtingen in Neckartenzlingen. Here Ghazal SeilSepour is active as a trainer. Jauch and rope pour know each other from their time together at the federal base in Stuttgart. Jauch started training again. She started with small destinations. “In the beginning I didn’t think about competitions,” she reports. But the collaboration with her trainer was so much fun and developed so well that she can now do this exercise again on the uneven bars. It is important to her to listen to her body carefully. “In training I go to the device and see how it works. I always have to pay attention to my knees.”
To strengthen your body, Jauch runs CrossFit. This is an intensive functional training that combines elements from weightlifting, gymnastics and endurance sports. Above all, she worked in the mental area.
The bowl is my other mindset.
Meolie Jauch, gymnast
In the past, she had big problems standing on the balance beam exercises. It always fell down or twice. “I already had the call ‘it always falls down anyway’. Now I approach another mindset and stand almost every exercise.”
Her training workload has significantly reduced her. She no longer completes ten units six days a week – that used to be. Now she is still in the hall three times a week. She found the love of gymnastics, the 18-year-old recently said to Nürtinger Zeitungand despite the reduced training workload in the second division team of TS Neckargym Nürtingen, delivers strong services. This year she had been doing well over 13 points on the uneven bars three times – with an exercise that is almost identical with the one she had shown in Antwerp at the World Championships in Antwerp.
Catch up with the youth – sometimes on Ballermann
It finally feels coherent for Meolie Jauch – in a sporty, but also away from wooden and springboard. She has the feeling that she says, to have to catch up with everything she has missed in recent years. This also includes a weekend on Ballermann.
The ambition is sporty back, she says. Therefore, she registered for the German Championships in Dresden. Participation in the all-around was not possible for the 18-year-old because after a cruciate ligament operation she only had to fight back step by step last year. In the finals, she consciously only competed on the balance beam and on the uneven bars.
Her ambition also comes to light when she talks about her exercise on the uneven bars. “I still lack my departure. I can do the double -old tin with a screw, then the exercise would be five tenths more difficult and absolutely at world level.” However, she could not train this exit in the Neckargym, since the landing area there is too hard and therefore not good for her knees. “We would have to train in another hall, which has not yet been made possible.”
Possible return to the gymnastics team Germany?
And if national coach Gerben Wiersma came up with you after your strong appearance of Dresden? “Never say never,” Jauch replies in a variety of ways. Her trainer Ghazal SeilSepour wrote on Instagram full of admiration about her gymnast: “With every training session, you stayed in the hall at any moment. You have listened to yourself and followed your own goals.”
There is an opportunity in every crisis. Meolie Jauch used it.
