The five-time speed skating Olympic champion Claudia Pechstein (49) is up for election when deciding on the German flag-bearer duo for the Winter Games in Beijing (February 4 to 20).
The Berliner is one of a total of six athletes who can hope for the award.
In addition to Pechstein, who is taking part in her eighth Winter Games, the women's tobogganist Natalie Geisenberger and snowboarder Ramona Hofmeister were nominated.
The men's candidates are bobsleigh dominator Francesco Friedrich, ice hockey player Moritz Müller and tobogganist Tobias Wendl.
For the second time after the Summer Games in Tokyo 2021, where beach volleyball player Laura Ludwig and water jumper Patrick Hausding led the German team into the stadium at the opening ceremony, a woman and a man will be selected.
The votes of the German athletes and the fans are each rated at 50 percent.
You can vote until January 30 (11:59 p.m. CET) at www.teamdeutschland.de.
The result will be announced on February 3 (06:00 CEST), one day before the opening ceremony.
According to the DOSB, criteria for the pre-selection were success, role model function and diversity of the sport.
In addition, “the Corona rules on site would have an impact on the arrival and departure of the athletes and thus also on the pre-selection”.