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Successful naturalization: German duo starts at Olympics
09.09.2025 – 7:05 p.m.Reading time: 1 min.
The German Olympic team has new hopes for the winter games in Milan. Minerva Fabienne Hase and Nikita Wolodin is now certain.
The last bureaucratic hurdles have been taken: Minerva Fabienne Hase and Nikita Wolodin are allowed to start Germany at the 2026 Winter Olympics. The pair of running vice world champion was officially natural on August 21-and thus fulfills the prerequisite for starting together with partner Hase in Milan.
The two secure one of the two Olympic starting places that the German team had won at the World Cup in the spring. German citizenship was crucial: Without them, Wolodin should not have been nominated.
“It was a very difficult phase for me. In addition to training, I had to concentrate on learning German for level B1. It was not always easy. But I am very happy that it worked in the end,” said Wolodin at the Olympic Barbecue of the Berlin am Wannsee.
150 days before the start of the winter highlight, the couple can now concentrate on sport. “The focus can now focus completely on training and we know that we have purely bureaucratic everything we need to be able to walk,” said Hase, “now it is up to us to show our potential.”