Winter Games 2018 Pyeongchang: Steinmeier bids farewell to the Paralympics Team

Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier invited the German disabled athletes to attend the Paralympics in Pyeongchang on Sunday in Frankfurt/Main (9. till 18. It is a good thing that the association’s attitude is so clear and unambiguous that it has adopted the DBS’s “exemplary attitude” in the fight against doping. Sport must not be destroyed by doping and corruption,”said Steinmeier.

DBS President Friedhelm Julius Beucher recently criticized IPC’s decision to invite 30 Russians to South Korea for the Games. He has no sympathy at all for this “free ticket”, said Beucher.

20 German athletes flew to South Korea early on Sunday evening “The fans at home, a whole country is keeping their fingers crossed for them. Each and every one of them is a role model. I’m keeping my fingers crossed,”said Steinmeier before taking off.

For Beucher, the farewell by “Steinmeier” is an important and clear signal. Our team feels that this is a great honour when the first man in the state comes to fly,”he told SID.

The team around “Golden Girl” Schaffelhuber, who won five gold medals in Sochi in 2014, arrives in South Korea at noon on Monday. Whoever will attend the opening ceremony on 9. The German flag will be carried into the stadium in March, is still open.

Team D” comprises eleven athletes and nine athletes. In addition, there are four accompanying runners in the sports of Para Ski alpine and Para Ski Nordic. Nine athletes will celebrate their premiere at the Paralympics. A total of 670 athletes from 45 nations are expected to attend the Games.

Alpine skiing paragliding: Anna-Lena Forster (Radolfzell), Georg Kreiter (Murnau), Thomas Nolte (Braunschweig), Anna-Maria Rieder (Murnau), Noemi Ristau (Marburg), Andrea Rothfuss (Mittelal), Anna Schaffelhuber (Bayerbach); accompanying runner: Lucien Gerkau (Ristau)

Para Ski nordic: Alexander Ehler (Kirchzarten), Andrea Eskau (Magdeburg), Martin Fleig (Freiburg), Vivian Hösch (Freiburg), Clara Klug (Munich), Steffen Lehmker (Clausthal-Zellerfeld), Nico Messinger (Freiburg), Anja Wicker (Stuttgart); accompanying runner: Martin Härtl (Klug), Lutz Klausmann (Messinger), Florian

Wheelchair curling: Wolf Meißner (feet), Heike Melchior (Frankfurt), Harald Pavel (Schwenningen), Christiane Putzich (feet), Martin Schlitt (Frankfurt)