Biathlon newcomer Voigt: That's why your twin brother is there

An embrace of her loved ones would have liked many Olympic starters in Beijing, but for hardly anyone, this was true due to the strict corona rules. Biathletin Vanessa Voigt has even been enjoying special support almost every day, because her twin brother Kevin is in China. "It's just a cool story that we go different ways to connect the ways here, but we can live together our dream," said the 24-year-old Thuringian.

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After holding Bronze on Wednesday with the German Frauenstaffel Bronze, she took Kevin in his arms. The only three-minute older brother is at the winter games as a freelance photographer, pursues the way of his sister for years from close proximity. "It's Sau Cool that he is here," Voigt said, which has established himself in this season almost how out of nothing and could even celebrate their first medal at Olympia. In the single she was as fourth even just busy, only 1.3 seconds were missing her to bronze. Shortly after the finish line, she also fell into his arms to the big brother.

Together in the stomach, together with Olympia.

Vanessa Voigt

"I got so annoyed and was just glad that he was there for me at the moment," Voigt said, who also posted the scene on her own Instagram channel and wrote: "Together in the stomach, together with Olympia." The German relay launcher explained something more accurate to her mail days later: "That just says everything about how much I look forward to having him by my side."

The connection between Vanessa and Kevin Voigt is a special 1. They started together with the cross-country skiing, but only Vanessa managed the leap to the Oberhofer sports gymnasium and became the biathletin. "I thought about something to be there too," Kevin Voigt said. He started taking pictures, became better and better, has been on site since the end of 2019 at all World Cups and holds the races. The list of its customers is long, from the Norwegian association to sponsors up to athletes. Who tracks the social media channels of Denise Herrmann, Johannes Thingnes Bö, Quentin Fillon MapLet or Marte Olsbu Roiseland, finds there many of his photos.

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"Even if my sister does not start, I'm full. Because it's the sport for whom I live," Kevin said Voigt. But with the little sister and their success be even more beautiful. It is really proud of what Vanessa has already managed and is still doing in China at her first games. Only since this season is the secure protée firmly to the team, according to the overall victory in the second-rate IBU Cup in the preseason is currently the 17th in the World Cup still before single-Olympic winner Denise Herrmann the best DSV woman.

"Two months ago, no one would have thought that I am here, and now I have my medal. Cooler could not be," Voigt said. Although she benefited from the beginning of the season of the lack of competition in the German team, but convinced with performance. With the exception of the missed mixed scale to the Olympic prelude, in which they had to complete two penalties, they were finally a few mistakes. A hit rate of 90 percent in lying and even 91 percent of heavier standing shooting are internationally outstanding.

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On Friday (8:00 am Mez) Voigt with its relay colleagues Herrmann, Vanessa Hinz and Franziska Preuß is still in the final Olympic mass start in Zhangjiakou. The race was brought forward due to the expected extreme cold by a day and takes place only two hours before the competition of the men, the last in China. Vanessa Voigt has already fulfilled her dream before graduation. "With Olympia a medal," she had once written in a poetry album under the point "My greatest wish".