Former ski star Felix Neureuther doesn’t believe in the hype surrounding social media.
“We are now reduced to something like that, that only the number of clicks is the decisive factor. That’s not real life,” said Neureuther in the BR24Sport podcast “Pizza & Pommes” with Philipp Nagel.
“Philipp, do you know what the fame is now? And that annoys me the most: if you post any picture and (look) how many likes you got,” said Neureuther: “Or: He didn’t like me, the I don’t like it anymore – such bullshit.” Children and young people enter a world that has nothing to do with the real world.
Neureuther also struggles with the term “superstar”. “The greatest fame you can experience is that your children look at you with a smile,” said the 39-year-old father. He himself is “nothing special at all just because I used to be a ski racer, and a footballer is nothing special because he used to be a footballer. They’re all normal people.”
Maybe except for one painful little thing, as Neureuther revealed. He recently drove to the SC Patenkirchen Championships in Garmisch and “put my racing shoes back on”. Half a day was enough for his “toenails to fall off again, just like when he was playing. And that was the last time I put on racing shoes.”