Laura Nolte gained the Olympic gold within the two-man bobsled for the second one time in a row. The arena champion, with pusher Deborah Levy, expectantly gained after 4 runs within the sliding heart of Cortina and repeated the nice luck from Beijing 2022. The German girls’s doubles celebrated successes within the bobsleigh, with which the lads accomplished a triple luck.
Nolte, who already led after the primary day of festival, edged out teammate Lisa Buckwitz and Neil Schutten for silver through 0.53 seconds. American Kailey Armbruster Humphries (+0.75 seconds) secured the bronze and thus averted a imaginable triple victory for Germany: Kim Kalicki was once fourth.
“Gold was the goal”
With 5 wins in seven races this season, Laura Nolte traveled to Cortina d’Ampezzo because the heavy favourite – and showed this position impressively. 5 days after profitable Olympic silver within the mono bob, when she gave up the lead within the ultimate run and needed to concede defeat to American Elana Myers Taylor, this time she held her nerve. At the penultimate day of festival on the Iciness Video games, Nolte secured the German staff’s 7th gold medal – and 5th on ice.
“Gold was the goal, it’s our leading discipline,” Nolte instructed ARD. She gave the impression relieved: “Before the run we didn’t know what was going on, you’ve seen time and time again on this track what can happen. We had to keep the tension high.”
In the meantime, Buckvitz ignored out on turning into the primary feminine bobsledder to win Olympic gold as each a pusher and pilot. She driven Mariama Jamanka to Olympic victory in PyeongChang 2018 and has now gained her first medal at the ropes. Former global champion Kim Kalicki, who was once driven through Bakwitz in Beijing 2022 and likewise completed fourth, once more narrowly ignored out at the podium with pusher Taleo Prepence. She was once 15 hundredths in need of the bronze medal.
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