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Olympic hero experienced horror injury on TV show - now he's training like a madman again

2021-07-15T08:15:44.737Z


At the 2016 Olympics he was our gold hero. At the beginning of the year he destroyed his knee on TV - now he works like a madman. We are talking about Fabian Hambüchen.


At the 2016 Olympics he was our gold hero.

At the beginning of the year he destroyed his knee on TV - now he works like a madman.

We are talking about Fabian Hambüchen.

Munich / Wetzlar - Fabian Hambüchen learned to deal with injuries in his career as a gymnast.

At the Olympic Games in Rio in 2016, the gym flea arrived damaged and was only able to exercise to a limited extent due to an inflamed tendon.

At that time it was already clear: It will be the last Olympia * in Hambüchen - and that is where he won the gold medal on the horizontal bar!

The 1.63 meter tall gymnast then ended his international career and was voted Germany's Sportsman of the Year at the end of the year.

At the 2021 Olympics in Tokyo *, we will no longer see Hambüchen as an active athlete.

Hambüchen then knew how to use what was supposedly a lot of free time.

Already during his playing days he could be seen in several TV shows.

In 2010 he sat with his father in Günter Jauch's chair in the celebrity special “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire”.

He also took part in Stefan Raab's “TV total Turmspringen” several times or he was a guest on Luke Mockridge's TV show “Catch!”, The unofficial German championship of catching.

Olympia 2021: Rio hero Hambüchen experienced horror injury on TV show - now he's training like a madman

There he suffered a very bitter mishap * at the end of last year!

“I jumped over a pole and wanted to

keep running

when

I hit it,

” the 33-year-old describes the horror scene at

Bild

: “Unfortunately, I jumped off on the wrong leg, which is why the thigh shifted against the lower leg when landing - and the knee was the suffering element ”.

The end of the song: cruciate ligament rupture, meniscus rupture and torn outer ligament!

"I felt a dull pain, it rattled a lot," reports Hambüchen: "It was immediately clear to me that something had gone wrong."

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As a gymnast, he had never seen such a serious injury.

But he didn't hold a grudge against the TV show for this.

“No, something like that happens,” says Hambüchen.

After the operation at the beginning of the year, however, he struggled bit by bit back to his old form *.

Now he's training like a madman again!

Although he is no longer a gymnastics superstar, he is still very active, especially in crossfit.

"The injury is a setback," says the three-time Olympic medalist (1x gold, 1x silver, 1x bronze): "I need the year to fight my way back."

Video: Fabian Hambüchen - circus act on the abyss

At the 2021 Olympics in Tokyo, we will still see the "gymnastics flea", even if not on the horizontal bar or the rings.

Hambüchen works as an expert at

Eurosport

- in a double role!

On the one hand as a gymnastics expert and on the other hand as a reporter in the German House.

Logically, he doesn't follow the games in Japan completely emotionless.

"It's the first summer games that I'm not going to be there," said Hambüchen at

Eurosport

: "It's an emotional story.

It will be difficult for me to see who will be the new Olympic champion on the horizontal bar.

But I'm really happy. ”

(Smk) * tz.de is an offer from IPPEN.MEDIA

Source: merkur

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