World Masters Games - Olympic Games of the elderly. The "Holy Grail" in the senior sports. I'm sitting in the plane to Sydney and have no idea what I'm doing. "You are good - moving out because the other cook only with water.." he said and "bring a medal back home."
Jürgen Wunderlich - my coach knows what he's talking, I tell myself is, but so often even internationally stood on the plank and stood up to the competition pressure.
But I'm nothing - nervous, inexperienced, and preferably at home, at home in my little Weis Main, Bayreuth basement of the sports center - in my athletics club together with my training buddies Alexander, Alexey, Toni, Michael and of course, Jürgen. Everything has its place because, in order. And I have just lost - the order, internal order - 17,000 km from home, legal relations, English-lingo, cosmopolitan city of Sydney, 25,000 athletes, square kilometer-wide Olympic Park, Chinatown, Downtown Sydney, backed beans in tomato sauce and Veggemite for breakfast. Everything else, everything is new - all restless.
Dirk ordinary chaos, finds a solution for everything, soothes carts approached calories when I'm hungry, beckons taxis out right when it no longer likely to move on, find hotels, Accreditierungsbüros, exchange dollars, has seven branches and infinite patience - my hero.
Finally it is done after 30 hours of flight, 3 nights restless, 100,000 times Herzwummer too fast - start for Germany at the Sydney Olympic Park, Southee Center on holy ground, where there were Ronny Weller and Andrey Chemerkin.
"Viola Lauber, Germany, 1st attempt - all in fast motion - get out on the stage, stay calm, as in training, Jürgen behind me says," Pull, mooring "- everything goes like clockwork Now they pay off the many repetitions, the repetitions, over and over again until no longer be considered needs. Thanks Jürgen, now I'll cling to it. By drawing, mooring, like a mantra that sounds and already he is over - the first attempt. Three white lights - I wake up. Valid! Wow!
continues, 43 valid in the second. Now 45 kg - I'm so nervous - I belong here? , 30 seconds to play, why is it taking so long, get out and train - No! She falls. By pulling - yes mooring, but ...! Shit! It's getting close. Ute Hehl, European champion also shows nerve, 46 kg valid, but messed up the third attempt. Macken, Australia remains Championess Cool, provides three valid from, 46 kg, Schmidberger, the defending champion stormed ahead with 52 kg,
hardly know what happens to me - Standings. "You lie 3-9 kg back behind the Medaillienplätzen. You are not concentrated. We are not flown halfway around the world, so now you're standing next to you! To pinch my cheeks, holding Straight up. You are the strongest woman in the shock box. The others do not know, nobody knows you, That's a big advantage now: Their First. Since everything is still there. Collect yourself again. The competition begins for you now go "motivated my hero.
Dirk ensures that I have completed the right moment my warm up, says when I have to move the weights need to increase the athlete in mind, says" now that . 57 kg "heel, pressure, or beneath, through, and the weight is at the top end for Hehl, Schmidberger, Macken, the competition is already 101 kg Hehl, 104 kg Macken, 107 kg Schmidberger -... everything is open
Now I'm awake, knowing it will show what I've learned, I now make us proud! With 60 in the piercing I get is a bronze, now stand at 103 kg Two combat power and must now decide - "62 silver, 65 for gold." I decide kg for 62 - and the attempt succeeds. Silver in Sydney, Australia Metrolpole, 30 hours away from home for me. Endorphins pumping in every cell of the body - like a rubber ball, I jump on the stage, I'm just embarrassed Senorität - no thanks. Everything wants to get out, all the pressure at once. SILVER.
Impressionen aus Sydney
ceremony, graduation photo of my age group.
After the competition, together with my Teammate Sabine Esche man who had won the gold in your Gewichtsklassse.
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