Victories, falls, ambitions and wishes never fulfilled by Franziska van Almsick, the German champion who inspired thousands of girls
Born in East Berlin in 1978, when the Wall was continually propped up with new fortifications, further checks, more and more meticulous searches. Finding yourself then at fourteen, in 1992, to represent united Germany in an Olympic context: it is no longer the same country and you are no longer the same girl who at the East German “Spartakiadi” in 1989 had won 9 medals, becoming the yet another futuristic athlete on whom the Ministry of Sport of the GDR would have relied as a victoriously propaganda vehicle amid puffs of foam and chlorine residues.
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