Östersund (dpa) – The German biathletes remain ambitious: “Our goal is that we squint at four or five medals.”
“Even if we know that it won’t be easy,” said Sport Director Bernd Eisenbichler from the German Ski Association in an interview with “Münchner Merkur” and “tz” with a view to the Olympic Winter Games in Beijing.
Especially in “the three relays we have the right to fight for the medals”, emphasized Eisenbichler and added: “And even in the individual races it is not presumptuous to speculate on one or two medals.” The fact is in any case: “ The Olympics are all about medals. Sure, fifth place is a great achievement. But at the end of the day nobody cares. “
At the 2018 Winter Games, Germany was still the most successful nation in Pyeongchang with seven medals. However, Laura Dahlmeier, who won two golds and one bronze, as well as sprint Olympic champion Arnd Peiffer and the mass start runner-up Simon Schempp have since resigned. There is a big gap in the men’s team in particular. With women, Denise Herrmann and Franziska Preuss seem ready to intervene in the battle for precious metals.
Eisenbichler was convinced of a successful winter. “We dealt very critically and intensively with the last season. It was very inconsistent, “he said:” We made some changes after that, and at the moment it looks like we’ve done some things right. We have a really good mood in the team now. “
