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World Cup out for Olympic champion Nolte after a fall in two-man bobsleigh
Two-man bobsleigh Olympic champion Laura Nolte (front) and Neele Schuten start on the track. photo
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For two-man bobsleigh Olympic champion Laura Nolte, the World Championships in St. Moritz came to an early end.
For two-man bobsleigh Olympic champion Laura Nolte, the World Championships in St. Moritz came to an early end.
The 24-year-old from Winterberg fell in the third of a total of four races and did not finish with her brakewoman from Gladbeck, Neele Schuten. As in the final training session, Nolte skidded out of the well-known “Horse-Shoe” curve too early, then got too much pressure and fell again in the same place.
“The team is fine,” said the spokesman and gave the all-clear. Thomas Schwab, Chairman of the Board of the Bobsleigh and Sled Association for Germany (BSD), was also relieved after the women were able to get out of the sled themselves: “We always hold our breath, but it turned out well.”
After the training crash, the duo started “with pain on the left side,” Nolte said. After “the safety line” in the first run, as third-placed at the halfway point in the World Cup, she still had a chance of winning gold.