3 August 2024 is a day for the history books. After 32 years, a German wins Olympic gold in the single sculls again. And it's Oliver Zeidler. I watched the final in Paris from my home in Essen. And you could probably hear the stones falling from my heart in France. Oli has done it!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Many of you probably know that as a psychologist I support the national rowing team (\"Germany Eight\") and also the reigning World Rowing Champion in the single sculls. Now I can also say: the Olympic champion! It's hard to believe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Oli cried at the award ceremony. I'm so happy that he cried. Showing emotion also means being able to savour the moment. That's what touched me the most.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I had officially gone on holiday for the first week of the Olympics so that I could be there for the German rowers at the Olympic Games. I was in close contact with Oli, we wrote and spoke on the phone. The week was much more intense for me than at other Games, because I realised that I was building up to be a single sculler: I build up a more intensive bond with a single sculler than with an entire team. That's human nature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
That's why I was so excited. I know what Oli has invested and how much he has given up. I give him this gold medal from the bottom of my heart.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When I look back on the week, I realise that the knot was untied by the semi-final with the Olympic record. That's when Oli overcame the trauma of Tokyo 2021. After that, I was sure that anything was possible. The final was a race to perfection. Totally focussed, tactically perfect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Oliver Zeidler and I recorded three episodes about our collaboration in my podcast \"Find the core\" - available at <\/a>https:\/\/ac-campus.de\/podcast\/<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 3 August 2024 is a day for the history books. After 32 years, a German wins Olympic gold in the single sculls again. And it's Oliver Zeidler. I watched the final in Paris from my home in Essen. And you could probably hear the stones falling from my heart in France. Oli has [...]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4227,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ac-campus.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4226"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ac-campus.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ac-campus.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ac-campus.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ac-campus.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4226"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ac-campus.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4226\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4228,"href":"https:\/\/ac-campus.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4226\/revisions\/4228"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ac-campus.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ac-campus.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ac-campus.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ac-campus.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}