Claudia Pechstein ends her long career. After the end of an agonizing process, it is over.
Claudia Pechstein ended her career. After the end of years of legal dispute because of a doping lock from 2009, the speed of ice cream at the age of 53 ends.
For 16 years of long years, she had resisted the allegations until the procedure was recently ended.
“The fight was motivated! But now the fight is over and therefore also my career. I can hang the ice skates on the nail, ”said five times Olympic champion at a specially called press conference.
Pechstein wants to remain ice skating run
It will “remain connected to the skating of the ice, but no longer as an active person. I don’t have to have that at that age. I am glad that I still won World Cups when I was 45. I wanted to stop when the case is complete, now I’m holding word. “
With five Olympic victories (in 1994, 1998, 2002 and 2006) and four other Olympic medals, she was the most successful German Olympium at Winter Games until it was replaced by Natalie Geisenberger in 2022.
Pechstein is the first winter athlete who took part in eight Olympic Games.
Pechstein did not reveal exactly how exactly the process for her person had ended. Originally, it had requested 8.4 million euros in damages. “We will no longer say more about the rest of our lives,” explained her partner Matthias Große, who is also President of the German Sincer Run community.