Olympia-Corona-Hotel "unreasonable": Team doctor has "never seen the German gold hope mentally at the end"

Created: 2/6/2022Updated: 2/6/2022 8:34 am

By: Andreas Knobloch

Eric Frenzel is disappointed and dejected at the Olympics.

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While others dream of medals, German Olympic athletes spend their time in "Corona prison".

Conditions are described as "unreasonable".

Beijing - The Olympic Games in Beijing are both a dream and a nightmare. The fine line that the athletes walk is guided by Corona. If it goes into the valley of tears and the test is positive, then the nightmare begins, if the test is negative, you can dream of gold, silver and bronze. Unfortunately, an absolute gold candidate of the Germans ended up in Corona prison - if you like to put it so dramatically. At least according to the quotes from the officials, the Corona hotel rooms are anything but comfortable.

The Nordic combined Eric Frenzel was the absolute top candidate, especially after Jarl Magnus Riiber dropped out.

The Norwegian competitor is in quarantine, as is Frenzel and his teammate Terence Weber.

Frenzel documents his transport to the Corona Hotel on Instagram with the words: "Then let's hope for the best to get out of isolation here very soon." The winter sports enthusiast is clearly reluctant to criticize the speakers.

Olympia 2022: Heavy criticism for the lousy Corona hotel - gold favorite Frenzel "mentally" down

The team doctor Dr.

Stefan Pecher said: "The situation was very bad on Friday.

When Eric was picked up, then came to the quarantine hotel and I saw the first videos and messages from him, I was amazed.

He was really exhausted mentally.

I've never seen him like this before.

A difficult situation.” The nightmare start in China took the nordic combined pretty hard.

"I've never seen him mentally in such a situation," said team doctor Stefan Pecher, who says he has been looking after Frenzel for 17 years.

"Not in defeats, not in unlucky situations at World Cups or World Championships or Olympic Games."

Olympia 2022: DOSB does everything possible to improve conditions

Meanwhile, the German Olympic Sports Confederation is making intensive efforts to improve the quarantine conditions for Frenzel.

Head of the mission Dirk Schimmelpfennig described them as "unreasonable" on Saturday.

Therefore, the DOSB is already in intensive exchange with the International Olympic Committee and the Olympic organizers in order to "accelerate the remedy".

This not only applies to the Nordic combined athletes, but also to the figure skater Nolan Seegert, who has already had to spend three days in the isolation hotel and is now getting a larger room and training equipment.

"It is important to us that the framework conditions in the quarantine are good," said Schimmelpfennig.

"It is important that the three athletes have the perspective of returning to the competition and being able to prepare further physically." He is convinced that solutions will be found "that are appropriate".

On the opening day, the Chinese officials caused a scandal during a TV broadcast that had to be canceled immediately.