Her father Udo Hussong films her with the tablet, how she runs, how she turns her upper body, how she pulls her arm back, how she sends the spear towards the sky.

He keeps looking at his tablet.

Attempt one: 59.94 meters, attempt two: 59.18 meters.

Experiment three: She runs, her upper body flat, the spear too flat: 59.61 meters.

The father looks at the tablet again - then he looks up.

His look reveals: He doesn't understand what's going on down there.

Stefanie Sippel

Sports editor.

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Christin Hussong is sitting on a bench, looking at the floor, pulling on her T-shirt. At the moment she is in eighth place in the ranking. Eda Tugsuz holds the spear in the middle of her face, she concentrates, inhales. She had two failed attempts before that. For them: the last try. She starts up. The spear flies in a high arc. 62.13 meters. Tugsuz remains in the competition. Her nerves, stronger at the moment than Christin Hussong's before. Hussong nods, puts on her shoes. She won't need the spikes anymore. Ninth place, no more attempts for her. Hussong, 27 years old, the European champion from Berlin, stayed ten meters below her season best in Tokyo. At 69.19 meters, she traveled to Tokyo as number two in the world - and wanted to fight for a medal.

But at this crucial moment she did not find her way into the competition.

The medals were won by the others: gold for Liu Shiying from China (66.34), silver for Maria Andrejczyk from Poland (64.61) and bronze for world champion Kelsey-Lee Barber (64.56).

Hussong already had problems in qualifying.

Getting to the heart of the performance, it didn't work for Hussong at these games.

In the ARD interview shortly after the competition, she said: “Unfortunately I couldn't do it technically at all.

It was the worst competition in the whole year. "

Probably the most inopportune moment for it.

“Of course it sucks if that happens in the Olympic final.

If you throw so badly technically, you don't deserve it, ”she says.

Throwing in worked.

But in the competition she did not "get it on the spear".

At the World Cup in Doha, Hussong threw the spear 65.24 meters. She finished fourth there - just missed the medal. Things should be different at the Olympic Games. After the competition, Hussong and her father may watch the video footage. What went wrong What happened? Her father trained her from an early age. He taught her everything. The roles are clearly assigned on the square. Her father is then her trainer and she is his athlete, professional distance. In private they are daughter and father. It will continue like this with the two of them for a few more years. “I think things will look better in a few days. I'm still young, I still have a few games ahead of me, ”says Christin Hussong. I'm sure your father sees it the same way.