The golden girl got to sing again during the Nordic World Ski Championships in Planica. In a normal downhill race, in the interview area in front of almost every camera and almost every microphone – and of course at night in the team hotel. “We are number one in the world”, the German jumpers were already shouting louder than just Thursday night Catherine Althaus he won his first singles gold. On Saturday afternoon, the 26-year-old Oberstdorf native’s team-mates, coaches and supervisors too could feel they were world number one. Althaus, Anna Rupprecht, Luisa Görlich and Selina Freitag took gold in the team competition on the normal slope by a large margin, ahead of Austria and Norway.

And then they danced – Rupprecht even in sandals – to Slovenian folk music, shouting out marathon shots and barely able to believe their luck, two years after a disappointing fifth place at the home World Cup. Oberstdorf was on top this time. The rivalry was a lifesaver for DSV-Adlerinnen despite winning at half time. While Austria around World Cup leader Eva Pinkelnig and Norway around Anna Odine Stroem already secured the medal, Katharina Althaus sat on the beam and had to wait a long time due to difficult wind conditions.

He was normally resistant to stress in such situations, he once said, but as time went on and his teammates there even got involved, out of nerves, even dancing to the catchy “Planica, Planica » tune, then at one point essentially the oldest member started thinking about the DSV jumper.”Oh my gosh I almost peed my pants in there” she said later as her combined Nordic partner marched on and beat Althaus.With a jump of 94.5 meters, the Oberstdorf native secured the gold.

Excited with victory and excitement, the DSV quartet are also eager to tackle taboo topics. Rupprecht has told his millions of viewers on ZDF that he finds it very difficult individually. “But thankfully that period stopped at some point. Today was much, much better.” The 26-year-old woman from SC Degenfeld needs clarification on menstrual pain. The topic needs to be free of taboos: “It often happens that in a sport as tricky as ski jumping you don’t have much access and you have trouble climbing up. I’m tired of trying to explain why it’s not so good. Then I’ll tell you honestly: I’m on my period.” His teammates nodded. DSV’s trainers were very relaxed about it. When training didn’t go well due to timing, they said: “Come on, stop and go to bed with a hot water bottle”.

The problem of daily training was not a problem for the German ski jumpers on Saturday night. And if you have, you won’t be able to publish it at all. Why won silver and bronze by Andreas Wellinger and Carl Geiger not many people pay attention to this in Germany. ZDF left the live broadcast shortly before 7:00 PM. Journalist Stefan Bier referred to the Internet, expert Toni Innauer was silent that the TV station was not prepared to delay the day’s news by a few minutes. There are still three German ski jumpers with top medal chances.

Planica Nordic World Ski Championships: ZDF in a dirt storm

A storm has erupted at ZDF on Twitter, with one user writing “a bad joke”, one viewer speculated: “They would never have dared do that to a holy cow’s ass. When asked by our newspaper, Stefan Schwarzbach, head of communications at DSV, said: “If you stop premium products at the start of a long day of winter sports, the fans can’t understand it. And it’s only a small consolation to keep it live.” Schwarzbach believes that out of 3.2 million viewers, “at least two million viewers who failed to change so quickly must have been lost. DSV sent out a protest note – also because the sponsors “didn’t like it”.

And thus the home-jumping fans missed what national team coach Stefan Horngacher called a “jump of the millimeter” that was barely to be surpassed in terms of drama and excitement. Karl Geiger, supported by his parents, wife Franziska and their daughter Luisa, was surprised to win another medal. “So cool, so tight.” To beat defending champion Piotr Zyla, 13th after the first round, Geiger will need to break his climb record. Andreas Wellinger was also pleased. In his first reaction, he wrestled with the lost gold: “The only thing missing from the top were the judges, who only gave me 18.5. But the horses were absolutely fantastic,” said the Bavarian at the end of the day who was crazy. Horngacher looked as relaxed as ever. And he knew who to thank. “Katha and the girls took the pressure off us twice. The atmosphere in the team was fantastic.” The worries that German jumpers still had for the tournament were suddenly swept away in the windswept land of Planica.