Ski jumper Katharina Althaus is still plagued by bad memories of her disqualification in the Olympic mixed competition.
"I don't think I've actually fully processed it yet.
I still have moments where I sit there and hope that it was a bad nightmare and I'll wake up again," said the Beijing Olympic silver medalist on the normal hill in an interview with the TV channel "Sky".
"I'm very happy that I had the team in Beijing around me, that I wasn't alone, that they were all there for me and that I always had someone to talk to," said the 25-year-old from Oberstdorf, who after her start has long since returned home for the Winter Olympics.
It is also reassuring that “I have my friends and family around me and I am not alone.
I think that would be really bad now."
The German team, which in addition to Althaus also included Selina Freitag, Karl Geiger and Constantin Schmid, had been disqualified because Althaus and four other athletes allegedly did not suit suits.
Nevertheless, Althaus also had reason to be happy: After 2018 in Pyeongchang, she also won silver on the normal hill in Beijing.
"As the first female ski jumper to win two individual medals: At first I didn't understand that I was the only one to have won two individual medals at the Olympics.
I'm super happy that I did it and that I was able to show it again after four years."