Skeleton IBSF World Championships 2019

[heywoodu 15,145]

Just now, dcro said:

Sosa, meanwhile, managed to produce this intriguing racing line...

 

One-ups Laurine van Riessen.

[heywoodu 15,145]

German flag with 'Team Ivory Coast' next to the starting house, cool  

[heywoodu 15,145]

Kanakina was trying to smash right through that wall at the finish.

[heywoodu 15,145]

Cool to see Bree Schaaf coach everyone and their mother as long as their from a small nation  (I know, that's the job as development coach)

 

Too bad she doesn't have a separate jacket for Sweden, Brazil etc  

[dcro 10,210]

Just now, heywoodu said:

Cool to see Bree Schaaf coach everyone and their mother as long as their from a small nation  (I know, that's the job as development coach)

 

Too bad she doesn't have a separate jacket for Sweden, Brazil etc  

 

Bree Schaaf is coaching mothers?

[heywoodu 15,145]

Just now, dcro said:

 

Bree Schaaf is coaching mothers?

Yes.

[heywoodu 15,145]

Kimberley Bos drank her first ever coffee, live, after losing a bet  

[dcro 10,210]

Bos is on the move.

 

I really like how the track looks. It's almost as quiet as St. Moritz!

[OlympicsFan 858]

3 hours ago, heywoodu said:

Who knows, maybe there was behind the scenes stuff going on that we don't know about but made her want to get away, no idea. And yeah, she could be the best of all Germans, so I don't think her move to the Czechs was very much based on not being able to make the German team (for example in the previous two teams she was quite clearly the third German behind Hermann and Lölling, Griebel only got a chance when Fernstädt didn't start and then was not very impressive).

 

Now I'm curious about something which I can't really find much about: Fernstädt was born in CZE, but when did she/her family go to Germany, any idea?

Cant find anything about that, only the following things:

- Her mother is from the Czech Republic and her father is from Germany

- She started as a gymnast, but when her family moved to Berchtesgaden in 2011 (from Heusenstamm, another german city) there was no good gymnastics club around so she started with skeleton. Apparently she was a gymnast for 8 years, but i couldnt find out whether she was for 8 years in the same club. 

- In 2018 she moved back to the Czech Republic and is studying in Prague

[OlympicsFan 858]

3 hours ago, Col_Frost said:

I didn't say it's strange  

 

She moved to Germany when she was 1 year old. First she was gymnastic than started to train skeleton.

Where did you find that? Couldnt find any german source ...