Laura Ludwig was almost retired, Louisa Lippmann had hardly any experience – how the two beach volleyball players still made it to the Olympics.
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Louisa Lippmann has ventured from indoor volleyball to beach volleyball to make her dream of the Olympics come true. Together with beach volleyball legend Laura Ludwig, she has qualified for Paris 2024. Despite great challenges and doubts, they managed to qualify for the Olympic Games. Now they are preparing to compete as dark horses and surprise the best.
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Louisa Lippmann, 29, and Laura Ludwig, 38 © Tom Wiedemann for DIE ZEIT
Before the match, in which the impossible is supposed to become possible, Louisa Lippmann is feeling terrible. “The feeling in my stomach and head was catastrophic,” she says. “Total nausea. Sometimes I even forgot to breathe.” The match was two weeks ago, at a beach volleyball tournament in Ostrava, Poland. Now she is sitting with an espresso on the terrace of Beach Hamburg in the Dulsberg sports park, the sun is shining. The facility is open to everyone, but some of the best German professionals also train here. Lippmann is one of them – which is anything but a given. For most of her life she played volleyball indoors – where a team consists of six players, not just two like on the sand. She has just had a one-on-one lesson with two trainers: diving, jumping, smashing. In the background, schoolchildren are splashing around in the outdoor pool. And Lippmann tells how she came to try the impossible in the first place: to take part in the Olympics, as a beach volleyball player.
