Oberstdorf (AP) – Ski jumper Katharina Althaus is still plagued by bad memories of her disqualification in the Olympic mixed competition.
“I don’t think I’ve really processed it yet. I still have moments where I sit there and hope it was a bad nightmare and I’ll wake up,” said the Olympic silver medalist in Beijing from the normal hill in a Sky -Interview.
“I’m very happy that I had the team in Beijing around me, that I wasn’t alone, that everyone was there for me and I always had someone to talk to,” said the 25-year-old from Oberstdorf, who joined the team after she started has long since returned home after the Winter Olympics. It’s also reassuring now, “that I have my friends, my family around me and I’m not sitting alone. I think that would be really bad now.”
The German team, which in addition to Althaus also included Selina Freitag, Karl Geiger and Constantin Schmid, had been disqualified because Althaus and four other athletes allegedly did not suit suits.
Nevertheless, Althaus also had reason to be happy: After 2018 in Pyeongchang, she also won silver on the normal hill in Beijing. “As the first female ski jumper to win two individual medals: At first I didn’t understand that I was the only one to have won two individual medals at the Olympics. I’m super happy that I did it and was able to show it again after four years.”