“When I rode off, I said: Come on Mandy, we’ll get that now,” said the winner. It was a perfect ride. Carried by the “feeling of really becoming one with the horse, which of course also felt the tension. If I even have it, it will be on this day.”
The father looks on “from above”
“Now you’re Gold Julia,” her fans wrote on a Germany flag. Somehow it is “very interesting what happens to people when you have won such a gold medal,” she sums up. “Cool – I could start crying right away.” Just as it happened to her after the golden coup in Tokyo, first on the warm-up area and later at the award ceremony. In her greatest sporting success, she had repeatedly thought of her father, who had died at the beginning of the year, who “was watching from above and would be incredibly happy to see this here”.
Krajewski “more under observation and more role model”
Before the Olympic dream became a reality, Krajewski not only had to cope with the blow in the neck from Rio. Even at world and European championships, some things went asleep. “Still, I never really thought about quitting,” she says and talks about the pleasure and burden of an Olympic champion who started riding eventing when she was eight.
Of course (tournament) life has changed: “You can already feel that the gold medal weighs a little.” Everyone in the industry knows them now. Knows what she’s done. “That’s cool,” she says, “but you are also more under observation, you are more of a role model.” Crazy, crazy, Krajewski.
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