Emma Hinze spun to the finish with a blank look, then the three-time world champion disappeared into the German box in frustration.

The high-flyer track bike experienced her first big disappointment at the Olympic Games.

After a keirin competition to forget, the 23-year-old top favorite was eliminated in the semifinals on Thursday on the high-speed track in Izu.

She clearly missed her second medal after taking silver in the team sprint with Lea Sophie Friedrich.

“You have to be wide awake.

Emma wants to defend, but clears the sprint corridor.

The basics of Keirin is to always stay on the black line ”, the paraplegic record world champion Kristina Vogel, as a ZDF expert, analyzed the faulty run of her successor.

Vogel won the last individual Olympic victory for a German cyclist in Rio in 2016.

The end in the semifinals was almost the logical consequence.

In the first round on Wednesday (“I slept through the run”) she was already about to end, only trembling about the hope run into the quarter-finals.

There, after two rivals fell, fourth place was enough to advance.

Sovereign was different.

And in the semifinals she took the lead, but could no longer hold it.

For her team-mate Lea Sophie Friedrich, who was two years younger than her, things went even worse.

The 21-year-old said goodbye to the competition in the quarter-finals.

The German track cycling team has to wait for the third medal.

On Tuesday, the German women's foursome won gold with a world record.

Next chance sprint competition?

Hinze had traveled to Japan as the big favorite after dominating the competition in the fighting sprint 18 months ago at the World Cup in Berlin.

But the pressure seemed to paralyze her a little.

According to old tradition, Hinze had already avoided publicly issuing a target in advance.

But after the preliminary work, this was actually not necessary.

There is hardly any time to breathe.

The sprint competition begins on Friday, in which Hinze and Friedrich are actually among the contenders for a medal.

National coach Detlef Uibel had praised his two jewels after the team sprint.

“Lea is 21, Emma is 23. The future belongs to the girls,” says the coach.

In the German men’s season, veteran Maximilian Levy flashed old class, but the 34-year-old from Cottbus didn’t get more than the quarter-finals.

The British Jack Carlin was too strong in two races for that.

This means that no German driver is represented in the supreme discipline after ex-world champion Stefan Bötticher (Chemnitz) had already failed one lap earlier.