for summer vacation and travel abroad and south scientists and now working on more than $150.00 vaccines, but none it's approved for us to just how close are we getting an effective corona virus news me the the almost are starting to feel the effects of his pare down training regimen and the lack of competition come yesterday when i got up i was really doors, which normally wouldn't be great for competitions in summer. but right now it's happening quite often and feels like the beginning of my training in the winter. it's just taking a bit longer than normal and despite the restrictions he's trying to make the most

of the 2020 summer even though at this point he doesn't know when he'll be able to put all of his training to use as an athlete. you want to atlanta, had my trainer, would also like to know whether the games are taking place in his workout is now also a test of patients. in the summer of 2020, the infection numbers did go down, but in 2021 epidemiologists are still issuing warnings. will there be a 2nd wave in europe? isn't we don't know. honestly, i think it all depends on vaccines. however, then nobody knew how far away effective vaccine would be. there was one bright spot for tom. i swear it out though he and his partner had just had their 1st child to me because in the last 6 or me personally, it's a stroke of fate that this happens now like i have sticks as an athlete, you are rarely home for longer than 3 weeks at a time longer stick to how is it?

it was really nice to be home longer now as a new dad for id. it also helped me get through all the vague planning, cancellations, and restrictions, which i think hopefully if she's going to take advantage of her 2nd opportunity to qualify. molina flight man also has to stay in good form. dan child on counseling. german coach will decide whom she takes, but it's up to me to grow as an athlete, get better and work on details that could end up being deciding factor events. in other words, anything as possible. you never know what's going to happen just like in this current situation. there's always stuff you didn't expect, but you have to keep hoping ah. ready

i me, the tech one, no fighter has wanted to show her skills to the national coach. but this hasn't been possible because of corona ah, constant uncertainty of not knowing is proving to be difficult or family, especially her mother helps her cope and gives her the support she need. enough milky no, no good, right. other service, while the warner becomes numbered and myself was, was in the forgive because i still live at home. she's there for everything and can

tell what's going on down. she always find the right way to get through to me to help and support me for media. and my family is super important to me or give me a lot of support soft. i don't see them that often. so when i'm home, we try to use the time, even if that just means having dinner together and enjoying some family time for media. the me at long last, the tick wonder national team is meeting for the 1st time in months. oh, but instead of the all important flight training, only individual training sessions are allowed this morning

and then the worst case scenario, one of my teammates had tested positive for cove, it 19, everything had to be stopped as session, so it wasn't just surprised that the course was canceled. it's a shame because we had a lot of good training partners here. and team training is different to always training at home. because here we can compete with the best in germany. so it's a shame side, but we have to accept it. now. the once again, like money isn't able to compete. it's another setback in her fight for an limbic spot. what about her health? a? it's like fun. also been infected with the virus. deep man, it's me she had unfortunately,

i didn't get to show them everything in these 3 days. so now i don't know why i'll go home and see how the corona test turns out. and if everything is good and i'll continue training as normal counsel, i like germany pass close to the master spike in cold it 900 cases with more than 6000 new infections in a 24 hour period. second wave is crashing over europe and intensive care capacity is close to breaking point in germany and rapidly rising corano virus infections have prompted action from the the okay. okay, now quietly appears. you know what to do? the money lot young flush is studying to become

a teacher the she's doing her internship at a primary school inch to normally it would last for 6 months. but due to corona, her full internship will only be 6 weeks long. and i like working with children and i see how quickly they develop, learn the things and apply them or just helping children find from putting to go on their way. i think that's the best thing one can do is then i would say pass on the highest the loans had a difficult time herself when she was in school. we went

a whole lot on i used to be bullied because of my skin color and had to change school. that's not easy for a small child or for adult vox and doesn't just apply to kids. but in general, it's not nice for anyone. the parents lived 2 hours south of stood. got her father is from the caribbean island martinique. ah, in my talk to i didn't know what was happening to my daughter back then. she didn't tell me. i don't know why her great started dropping. and that when she said she would like to switch schools rather than repeat the year and stuff with the wall and non before, ah, ah,

i just because i didn't talk about being bullied. i think it wasn't because i was ashamed and it was just an uncomfortable topic for me and i didn't want to bother my mother with it over the side of i, i think or, and i was fine or 11. it wasn't that i didn't trust her. i don't know if i was just that i wanted to work and figure it out for myself, which is difficult at 10 or 11 packaged with commune and numbers on the rise. again, another lockdown is looming. we have a plan, a, b, c. and sometimes even d, in case things change in the competitions or plan, but it's still unclear, especially in the hall where people can't socially distance. and there are many athletes. how can anyone in

the athletes are working on jumping power and technique? the empty stadium, their training, it reflects the wider situation, which at this point has already been going on for far too long. yeah, let us, unfortunately, this year's a bit uncertainty, but that's a lot of people are preparing for competitions that will get cancelled at the last minute. you are also working towards being fit enough for the competition by training properly. so all of that was not happening. it's pretty tough to deal with . 6 6 6 6 6 germany is bracing for a month. okay. and then the clock downstairs, again, is the coming day. so it will be locked on from the 16th of december. and what will happen is planned, international sporting events, will they now be cancelled? because despite the latest lockdown,

alexandra, a dollar on her way to her 1st competition in 9 months. it was an incredible feeling, somehow, also nerve wracking may have to go through whether i had packed everything several times. i normally do that on autopilot much was in a long time ago. mm hm. and i only at the tournaments are around $100.00 competitors or a bit more today, which obviously not a lot, but we get to compete unless it's gotcha. so it's a step in the right direction the, the, they told me to follow is among the favorites and location. but right now, finishing in 1st place isn't her priority. she said, i'm coming and i just wanted to get back into my competition routine and get all my windshields back in myself and stuff

me. i use the long interruption is showing its effect. dolo is struggling to find her rhythm and blues, the qualifying for the olympics. was already a huge challenge for athletes, and it's becoming even bigger, underhand demik conditions. still after the many months of uncertainty, days like this are a good way to feel a sense of progress towards something closer to normal format. actually yes and

feed. but we need events like these to get feedback on the training we've prepared for what lies ahead even the so every events like this is part of the preparation for continue until april based on appear. and so we still have a lot of time here site and we're using it to prepare for, but i can even come in. that's the answer is still far from being in our best form. it's a tough blow, especially with the upcoming, all important qualifying tournament for the olympics. me so things aren't going as she'd hoped. i know you will mention things too off as i am pretty upset right now. i expect to not for myself. right now i'm hoping to win national

tournament. and in general what i'm heading to a tournament, i want to win everybody over the years. i've learned to deal with failure a bit better and focus on what i need to work on it to the environment. my train helps me with that. okay, that wasn't very good. now we know where we're at. we're work on this or that. the smith. at this point, we don't know whether we'll get to prepare. encouraged or world federation says they will be preparatory international. it's melinda minutes. cups unbeatable at this point. no one knows what will actually happen is to convert your lectures and dollar is only competing against other germans. at the qualifying tournament, in april, she will also likely face international sensors, which will be even more challenging. molina fight minds. corona test has come back negative but the lack of

competitions is taking its toll on her life at the gym as lonely during lockdown. and then some disappointing news. ah, once again, she did not make it onto the olympic squad with no competition to fight and she was unable to make use of her 2nd chance. might have been the national coach called me and told me that the 2 previous nominees were re nominated. meaning, i won't be there by and i'll only be there if someone drops by or you might find this is yet another punch. does it go to this? but you just have to send yourself new goals is that keep looking forward and keep going as me. so i'm not so easy and sometimes you do ask yourself, is it worth continuing? no,

but you have to shift your perspective. i have another chance it's harris. and i want to make use of that in. 3 2 2 germany has recorded more than 50000 corona virus, deaths started the next. that number has written shortly over recent weeks. even as infection figures are finally declining by didn't or not. the limbic some games in cam know for fans will be allowed in the country due to the corona virus. a fishing rod, instead of a javelin, thomas wheeler, mrs. competing, well, let's say the last one was a practice competition. last year, they called it a competition, but it was training, but other than that, it was after the world cup in 2019 at the moment, things are scheduled to kick off again and may for a lot, but nothing a certain. during the pandemic, the athletes now know that international spectators will not be allowed at the

tokyo games. the news has made it even harder to stay motivated. i me personally, one thing that makes it all the more difficult is the fact that it looks like we'll be in the stadium without spectators. i mean with through and i love the sport with all of its emotion with it. and with an audience that supports the athletes and gives us extra power, you will notice they're absent away, things currently are unsafe. in the meantime, the 1st vaccines were making their way to germany, but only a few of been vaccinated. everyone wants one, including top level athletes. vaccination is discussed, the law. it's a highly political and topical social issue. as an athlete, i'm in no position to say that i should be prioritize if we do want to practice our

profession. but many others say that to i don't think it would send the right message to society if we athletes were to shout that we should be the 1st to be vaccinated. because the lympics are an event for athletes from around the world to compete. but at this point, day and other major sporting events are above all health risk the, the else like the whole room, whole planning and social distance thing would keep them safe. but now 7 german competitors have constructed the virus i thought endorsed sporting venues are becoming hot. so bad news for the olympic games in tokyo. the talk was mr. daniel always. originally, i think we were around 11 lead us. several of us tested positive for ruin at the european championship,

but after that there were 5 of us and stuff. and then eventually the fact that some took the positive when they came back is the pricing. and also disappointing. due to an injury, money the horse was not at the european championship, but now she is finally able to settle in the training camp site. i don't really liberating unless it's also because we really were at home, most of the time for training. and one of us here, we can train in the sun and enjoy the weather. it's nice to see something different . that changes theory. and that was really helpful for ah, the news, the athletes see being in pine, my as a privilege. but it's one that comes with strict social distancing requirements. the german team has been in effect, sealed off with almost no contact to the outside world.

the olympic games are drawing ever closer like corona is still casting a cloud over tokyo. i finally got a question. it's on the one hand stuff, i'm extremely happy that they're taking place. i want them that i can take part. but on the other hand, drange lab because everything is still go on. and of course, we know that there will be no for peter's not, we'll talk a lot of the other circumstances are unclear. so i wonder with harmony, but i am happy to help stuff and the just a few days it will be time for the qualifying tournament. for alexandra and all the scholars been i think i'm in a very good position. i mean, training very regularly. i feel and shape. i'm not injured. yes,

i'm fine. i just want to finally start. i hope i can maintain my fitness level until then or maybe and improve me. ready the others, i didn't get the tournament, that will be one when the whole the rest of basically the same category. they didn't make it because usually there's a when the podium, the top can all positions you can name and be proud of the kind of me in the qualifying tournament. it's all or nothing. well, the sensor make it to the games, eat the name was yes, i mean alex and here we have the alexander on the loan. number 25 and the world ranking me off to a good start. she makes it to the semi finals. she's

competing against a woman from billers and the german wins and there it is. the 15th touch by and dolo, which has to cure her entry to the final oh, actually i was using my normal metal after season. usually i just had 8 world cup and a 10 month season before arriving of the european a will championship. but we did our best in the current situation. the finale starts dolo is up against lena creevy. it's got a strong competitor from the ukraine. the decisive match

the attack and the when and the winning cry from the ukranian who has just secured her ticket to tokyo because i don't have the one on on i didn't win the tournament . and of course i'm sad and a bit disappointed how long of time not disappointed with mike this week, because i know what i've achieved in these 2 years. the qualification legalized that happens. now when my family and my friends give me so much support, i'm a 100 nephew for almost 2 years now. i'm well, i have to grandparents with the live and in a team. of course, the big games mean a lot to me i'm succeeding means a lot to me. but having a healthy family that now spends or generation i think things like math and more important. 150

because i know i'm not below average, but i'm one of the best in the world and it wasn't enough this time on it. but the fact is only 3 people from all of your forget to get a hair among the absolute best in the world. so i guess i'll have to be among the absolute, absolute, absolute best in the world for paris. and then i'll make it quite often. 2 3 the countdown has begun, the olympic plane has started its journey through japan here in so casino really usually marks the moment the public excitement over the games itself. but this time around the situation is different. hoppel and japan is experiencing is 4th and corona virus way. the vast majority here are for cancelling the games out of fear of new mass infection. the, the i understand that some of the enthusiasm is gone for little,

for us athletes, the biggest possible achievement. and i think it's important for us now. and for sports in general, my house, you don't flush is finally taking part in a competition. the panoramic still isn't over, so there will be no live spectators that would feel really good and really to finally be allowed to compete after 2 year finish. because i felt a bit sluggish today, i can't really say why i only chose 3 hours home to healing and but somehow i still thought as if i were tired and my legs aren't fit enough yet to jump any higher. ah, what she manages to jump 1.88 meters. and when's

a good showing that she knows she can do better the long forced interruption has disrupted her routine will feel of it. i still have many stations ahead of me. i need everything to be ready for the olympic games, not just physically, but psychologically feel certain that i can reach a good height that i'm not just getting to 1.8 and already meters. to know that i can jump over 1.9 meters. if i really give it my all and everything lines up and it's possible, in spite of the numerous setbacks, the olympics are now slowly becoming a reality. even if many athletes still don't know exactly where they stand. in germany, at the end of may 2021. the corona numbers are steadily decreasing while the number of vaccinated people is finally increasing among athletes as well. ah, well my school and now has

a sites firmly set on the olympic games. but what will the event be like this year potentially didn't have a 100 percent fair competition before the pandemic. and you still won't have one after the pan demik has brutally widened the social gap even further, often. those who have equipment or who were able to keep training despite lockdown positions, have a small advantage. countries that had no restrictions at all have an even bigger advantage on for even after months of uncertainty, things still remain unclear. but the olympic dream lives on me went to the games as an olympic winner is very special on the i'm still going with the aim to when i

was for athletes. it's really hugely significant event when i hope that the atmosphere will be good. although among the athletes, i hope it will be unforgettable. ah, ah, ah. i was little food waiting begins immediately after the hard fresh fruits of end up in the garbage instead of the trooper market. that should change with appeal liquid that increases the self. life of food is

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