Ex-biathlon star Dahlmeier expresses devastating verdict on Beijing: "Absolute no-go"

Created: 02/13/2022, 06:50

By: Nico Scheck

Laura Dahlmeier 2019. © Friso Gentsch/dpa

The awarding of the 2022 Winter Olympics to Beijing is causing criticism.

Laura Dahlmeier, former biathlon star, is now taking a stand.

Beijing – The 2022 Olympics in Beijing are not under a good star.

Even in the run-up, there was a lot of criticism of the award to Beijing, as China is not a classic winter sports nation.

Some nations are even boycotting the Winter Olympics.

A drastic step that Laura Dahlmeier, former top biathlete in Germany, can understand, however, reports fr.de.

Dahlmeier is a two-time gold medal winner and now acts as a TV expert on ZDF during the Winter Games.

From their point of view, the Olympic Winter Games in question are no longer up-to-date in their current form.

“Winter sports lack environmental awareness.

You travel around the world, run on artificial snow slopes.

We have to try to make it more sustainable,” she emphasized in the Spiegel interview.

"Absolute no-go": Dahlmeier criticizes the award of the Olympics to Beijing

Dahlmeier's criticism goes even deeper: "The fact that we pound new sports facilities out of the ground every four years at a different location for the Olympics, and then they are no longer used, that is no longer sustainable as a concept." Beijing is the best negative example of this : "What is an absolute no-go for me are cases like Beijing's alpine route.

If I relocate a nature reserve so that winter sports facilities can be built there, that really isn’t up-to-date anymore.”

In line with her criticism, Dahlmeier is an environmental protection expert in the International Biathlon Union (IBU).

She demands that you use existing plants and not build new ones every four years.

She also emphasized in the mirror: "It starts with the plastic cutlery.

The wax for the skis is a big topic.

Also the transport, how athletes get from A to B.”

Olympia 2022: What biathlon star Laura Dahlmeier is doing now

Dahlmeier is now in his 5th semester studying sports science at the Technical University of Munich.

Of course, she still spends a lot of time “being in the mountains, climbing, cycling, ski touring.

To be free, away from training schedules and competition structures”.

Meanwhile, the men failed to win a medal in the individual biathlon at the 2022 Olympics.

The problem was the performance at the shooting range.

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