“Was unhappy”: Gold heroine thought of the end of the career
29.07.2025 20:26 | 1: 39m
Anne Elendt swims sensationally with the World Cup in Singapore with gold over 100 m breast. She then talks exclusively to RTL/NTV and Sport.de about her feelings after the great triumph – and reveals that she had already thought of the end of the career.
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So of course. First of all, I looked for this red light. You always see that directly on the starting blocks, whether you are one, two or three or whether you are on the podium. And then it quickly became clear to me that I was on the podium, but of course not what placement it was. And then to see right on the board that I am first. Of course that was one shock after the other. That was to be on the podium for now, then the place one and then the five one on top. It really was, I don’t even know what to say about it. Yes, so of course, three years without success, I say now, right? The success I had in Budapest was of course difficult. I looked all the time, what is it because of? I trained and it just didn’t work. And I was really very, very unhappy in sport. And then of course Paris was not the way I imagined it. And then of course okay, what do I go on for myself now? Am I okay or do I have it? Am I satisfied with ending my career like this? And of course it took a few months to go through my head all these questions. And then in the end I decided to do it, I am also very happy to continue, to give sport again and of course now, after the end of my studies, I am flim -fleming freely. I’m really just for myself. The decision then to make really swimming for myself was so incredibly freed me that of course I could stop, if I really didn’t feel like it anymore. Of course it’s not the plan, but it is just really the pressure.