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Allgäu woman and Brazilian: dream couple competes against each other in the same sport at the Olympics

2022-02-11T08:47:39.677Z


Allgäu woman and Brazilian: dream couple competes against each other in the same sport at the Olympics Created: 02/11/2022, 09:39 am By: Andreas Knobloch Kim Meylemans and Nicole Silveira both compete in skeleton at the Olympics - and are a couple. © Screenshot Instagram Meylemans/Silveira There are some dream sports couples, but they rarely compete against each other in the same sport at the


Allgäu woman and Brazilian: dream couple competes against each other in the same sport at the Olympics

Created: 02/11/2022, 09:39 am

By: Andreas Knobloch

Kim Meylemans and Nicole Silveira both compete in skeleton at the Olympics - and are a couple.

© Screenshot Instagram Meylemans/Silveira

There are some dream sports couples, but they rarely compete against each other in the same sport at the Olympics.

But these two do.

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Of course, love also plays a role in the Olympic Games.

There are also dream couples in the Olympic villages in Beijing.

A prominent example: the two skiers Aleksander Aamodt Kilde and Mikaela Shiffrin.

The Norwegian and the American have officially been together since the summer of 2021 and also support each other at the big event.

Olympia 2022: Many dream couples in Beijing - but two drive against each other

It is also turtles in the German team.

Cross-country skier Coletta Rydzek, the sister of 2018 Olympic champion Johannes Rydzek, is dating skier Simon Jocher.

Everyone can keep their fingers crossed for the other when they call up their performance.

In the Swedish biathlon team there was even a "partner change you".

The love between two female athletes is special.

Because Kim Meylemanns is in a relationship with her competitor Nicole Silveira.

The two women compete against each other in skeleton.

Meylemans made headlines when a video of her sobbing and sending out a call for help for the coronavirus was released.

Meylemans and Silveira recently officially delighted the public with their love.

With a Christmas posting on Instagram, where they hugged under a nestle branch, Silveira's spell was also broken.

Meylemans came out a long time ago, Silveira delayed it.

Olympia 2022: Meylemans and Silveira not “opponents” in skeleton

Kim Meylemans should even be known to German skeleton fans.

As the daughter of two Belgians, she grew up in Lamderdingen, in the district of Ostallgäu, and drove under the German flag until 2014 before she switched to the Belgian association and moved to the country.

Silveira is Brazilian and has only been in skeleton for three years.

Before that she was a bodybuilder and brakeman on the bobsled team.

Now she has found happiness in the ice channel - and twice over.

When asked about the rivalry, Meylemans replied to

today.com

: "We're not competing against each other, but against the clock.

We don't fight each other in a ring, so I think it's wrong to see it as opponents."

Commenting on the fact that they compete for their respective countries, Silveira says: “We tend to get help from others because we don't have such a big team.

In that sense, I think we can help each other.” At least after the Olympics, the two already have plans to spend their holidays together.

You will enjoy this time.

Silveira has lived in Canada since she was seven, Meylemans in Belgium - it's a long-distance relationship.

"I'll probably spend the summer in Canada," says German-born Meylemans, who is looking forward to fun trips.

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Source: merkur

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