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Germany’s Olympic champion vents: "It’s a disgrace"

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The bobsled champion Laura Nolte, a gold medalist at the Winter Olympics in Milan Cortina, sounded the alarm about the future of her discipline in an interview with Bild. Bobsledding has long been a reservoir of medals for Germany, but the athletes who practice it, as soon as they get off the Olympic stage, have to do the impossible in order to finance their careers.

“We bobbers are by far the most successful medal winners, but we have very little television coverage. This is basically a disgrace. The equipment, hotels and transportation costs alone cost more than 50 thousand euros a year. I am incredibly grateful to my sponsors, because their support is by no means taken for granted”.

After the Olympics many disciplines disappear from television, relegated to live streaming, if they are lucky. “In addition to hard training, it takes a large dose of idealism to continue practicing this discipline”, continued the 27-year-old Nolte.

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The German champion is considered the world’s best rider in the two-man bobsled. Since 2022 she has won four overall World Cups, and this season she has won five out of seven races. At the Olympics, Nolte won two golds in the two-man bobsleigh in Beijing and Milan Cortina, and a silver in the one-man bobsleigh in the’Olympics in Italy.

Nolte wanted to retire after the Olympics, but decided to go on until 2030, at the Winter Games to be held in France: “Deborah Levi (his teammate) and I had both thought about retiring but we reconsidered after a while’. It”s just too much fun”.

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