Olympics: Nordic combined live – with returnee Eric Frenzel to team gold?
Created: 02/16/2022, 21:55
By: Marco Blanco-Ucles
Prominent returnee: Olympic champion Eric Frenzel supports the German team in the team competition.
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With Eric Frenzel in the squad, the German quartet of Nordic Combined athletes is fighting for Olympic gold in the team competition on the large hill.
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+++ UPDATE +++
Zhangjiakou - Eric Frenzel did it.
The veteran returns to the German team in time for the final competition of the Nordic Combined at the Olympic Games.
At the team competition, Frenzel will represent the German colors together with Vinzenz Geiger, Manuel Faißt and Julian Schmid.
Johannes Rydzek has to give way for Frenzel.
The jumping from the large hill starts at 9 a.m., at 12 p.m. the decision on the cross-country ski run begins.
I'm glad my trip here wasn't entirely in vain
Eric Frenzel
Frenzel, who had survived the stress tests yesterday, expressed his relief at the nomination to the SID: "I'm glad that my trip here wasn't entirely in vain." The 33-year-old national coach Hermann convinced with three decent jumps from the hill Wine book from a nomination.
Frenzel also withstood the examination by team doctor Stefan Pecher, explained Weinbuch: "We checked him out, did an ECG and listened to his lungs.
That was very positive.”
How Frenzel's body reacts to the corona infection and the subsequent long isolation remains to be seen.
The multiple Olympic champion would have been eligible to start in the individual on Tuesday.
However, for safety reasons, the DSV saw Frenzel's distance from a start - in contrast to the Norwegian association.
He let serial winner Jarl Magnus Riiber off the leash just one day after his release from the quarantine hotel.
After the race - Riiber was eighth - the Norwegian complained of cramps and pain.
"Maybe I shouldn't have started," Riiber explained after the competition.
Riiber is absent from the Norwegian squad for today's competition.
A warning example of not taking a corona infection lightly - even if there are no symptoms.
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Even without Riiber, the Norwegian quartet around Olympic champion Jörgen Graabak is going into the competition as the favorite for gold.
Frenzel, Geiger - also Olympic champions this year - and Co. don't have to hide.
“We must try to attack Norway.
It's difficult and maybe it looks almost impossible at the moment, but we have a chance to fight for gold," emphasized Weinbuch.
If Norway or Germany win, sporting history will be written in any case.
It would be the fourth gold medal at the Olympic Games for both Frenzel and Graabak - no other Nordic combined athlete has ever achieved that.
(mbu/sid)