Figure skating at the 2022 Olympics: tango behind barbed wire

Figure skating at the 2022 Olympics: tango behind barbed wire

The art in these games takes place behind a fortress. The Capital Indoor Stadium is located south of the Olympic Park, half an hour’s drive across the giant city. The massive block, inaugurated in 1968, can be reached via wide ring roads. The bus rushes past more modern facades, business and residential areas in the […]

Claudia Pechstein at the 2022 Olympics: on the lap of honor – sport

Claudia Pechstein at the 2022 Olympics: on the lap of honor – sport

A quick, reassuring look at the monitor: “I still have it!” Claudia Pechstein stated. Then she turned to the last group of questioners in the Beijing Ice Arena. The competition was still in full swing, but Pechstein already suspected that she would finish last in the standings; the best runners around the Dutch European Champion […]

German Corona-Isolated: In the hotel instead of on the track – sport

German Corona-Isolated: In the hotel instead of on the track – sport

According to the circumstances, they are doing well, said the German team doctor Bernd Wolfahrth. Eric Frenzel and Terence Weber, the two Nordic combined athletes, spent the start of the games in isolation with the big opening show. Their corona tests on Thursday and the follow-up tests on Friday were positive, and the two combined […]

Obituary: Ski racer Heidi Biebl died – Sport

Heidi Biebl was the first German Olympic champion in the downhill and was already a star as a teenager, but her last great wish remained unfulfilled. She hopes, said Biebl on her 80th birthday last February, “that I can have nice, good days with my Bora for as long as possible”. Less than twelve months […]