"Just thought: sliding, sliding, sliding, sliding"

In the unbelieving pleasure inflammation, Victoria Carl and Katharina Henning jumped together on the winning podium, which in tears-resolved national coach Peter's click raiders cheered on his 52nd birthday stunned. "I'm trembling all over the body, that's all incredible" called Carl, who made perfectly made with a picture bookspurt the fairytale teamprint triumph of Beijing.

• Dancing teachings from Oberstorf
• Carl jumped at short notice
• Click Rieder: "Lying in front of the schedule"

Dancing teachings from Oberstorf

At exactly 17.37 o'clock the 26-year-old was stormed as a final run in the Thuringia Express in front of the two seemingly overpowering opposite Jonna Sundling from Sweden and Natalia Nepryaeva from Russia over the finish line. The first Olympic Sieg for twelve years for the German cross-country skiing division disappeared in the meantime in the sporting insignificance, ecstasy was followed in black-red-gold.

I could howl all the time, that's so intense. This happens something unique.

National coach Peter Click Rieder

"We're here in the wrong movie! I'm so proud," Carl's congenial colleague Hennig said: "That we can still have a drain here after the squat silver, is madness." Also, you could barely capture: "I could howling all the time, that's so intense. Here something unique happens." Even in the three-kilometer biathlon stadium, the German women's bronze season was jubilating in front of the TV in the arms as she suddenly electrified the threshing sprint final on a screen during a live interview.

"Tonight is definitely danced right," she said, "We have already done that every night here. At ten Ten ten, we always opened the doors in the hotel and danced a bit together. So you need something like that when you are tense anyway " A teaching from the messaging home World Cup 2021 in Oberstdorf as a low point of the years-long descent.

Carl jumped at short notice

The former top talent Carl was completely detached, which until now has a little bit of a big breakthrough. On the final part of this power more than 6 x 1.5 km she had danced the duo to the Olympic victory - with powerful power: "I have turned off the head and only thought: sliding, sliding, sliding, sliding. Only in the finish I have perceived, That I was ahead, "she said.

Even with a first winning ceremony, Hennig and Carl (re.) Were still stunned. AFP Via Getty Images

It was not Carl, but Olympic Discovery Katherine Sauerbrey was intended as Hennig's partner for the teamprint. Sauerbrey, the supposedly better classic run, but reported himself in the morning, because after the great burdens of the past few days, no more 100 percent fit - and Carl became a crucial factor for gold from the replacement bench. "That we do not create this in the original occupation," she said, "Before that, I have a huge reciprocity."

Click Rieder: "Lying in front of the schedule"

You have to have that before the development of the former worry division underlook: Eight bitter years ago, the German cross-country skiers and cross-country skiers had remained with major events without medals, since Evi Sachenbacher-Stehles and Claudia Nystads Vancouver Triumph - also in the teamprint - without Olympic victory and had Almost acting on the edge of the third class.

Within a week, the Golden and Silver Girls made the deep forgotten, let the already sensational silver in the women's squadron the much greater sensation follow. "Actually," they were almost apologistic, "we lie with the schedule."