Farce in mixed ski jumping
“Bad Nightmare” follows Althaus further
2/16/2022, 8:43 p.m
She is the first ski jumper with two individual Olympic medals: Katharina Althaus is “super happy” after her return from Beijing. If it weren’t for the drama surrounding her suit in mixed jumping. It still brings back bad memories.
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 and hope it was a bad nightmare and I’ll wake up,” said the Olympic silver medalist on 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 that I always had someone to talk to,” said the 25-year-old from Oberstdorf, who after her start has long since returned home for 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.”
Criticism of the material controllers
The German team, which in addition to Althaus also included Selina Freitag, Karl Geiger and Constantin Schmid, had been disqualified, along with four other athletes, because Althaus allegedly did not wear suits. As a result, material controllers Mika Jukkara and Agnieszka Baczkowska were the focus of criticism. Geiger had denounced that someone had “an ego problem”. “I also don’t know if those responsible know what they did exactly,” he said. To crack down on five athletes from the four top nations, “you can’t make a bigger faux pas”.
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.”