“Quite a bit of kidding”
Olympic champion attacks ski star Lindsey Vonn
05.02.2025 – 4:06 p.m.Reading time: 1 min.
Since the end of 2024, ski racer Lindsey Vonn has been haunting the slopes. Markus Wasmeier is annoyed by the star athlete’s statements in the run-up to the comeback-and is still impressed.
Markus Wasmeier critically commented on the statements of ski star Lindsey Vonn about her damaged knee. The 1994 double Olympic champion accuses the American of twisting the facts as part of her comeback.
“She said she got an artificial knee,” said the 61-year-old in an interview with Sport1. He felt this statement as “quite a fool”. Wasmeier made it clear that Vonn is not an artificial joint, but a so -called “sliding plate that has no intervention on the bone, but is practically set like a tooth crown when you explain it layer -like other. “
The 1985 world champion said that he himself had two artificial hips. Accordingly, he also knew “what is artificial”.
Nevertheless, Wasmeier was impressed by Vonn’s achievements after her comeback in the World Cup shortly before Christmas. “I would not have thought that it was going so quickly. She made herself really fit.” He has respect from that.
Wasmeier even trusts a medal for the upcoming World Cup. At the same time, however, he sees it as a “poverty certificate” for the competition that an older athlete, who has already resigned, can continue to ride in the top 10.