Eight hundredths are missing to bronze: Förstemann and Kruse Fourth

The 35-year-old guide came in time trial over 1000 m with the visually impaired Kai-Kristian Kruse in 1: 00.554 minutes ranked four, on the bronze ground was missing in Izu Velodrome despite German record ultimately 82 thousandstel. With a weak last round, the tandem played the medal elevation on his parade track.

That we miss the medal at 82 thousandstel, is incredibly sad for us, it's not worse at all. That's the biggest punishment that there is, Förstemann said, criticizing the preparation in terms of material: We have ourselves Torn the ass tore day after day and have often been fattened because the nerves were blank. I'm pure physically as fit as never before. The people who should take care of the material have let us down.

Significant criticism: The bike is too heavy

He had had immense disadvantages towards other nations, Förstemann led: Our bike is too heavy, which weighs four kilos more than that of the victorious British. There are some things wrong in advance. For this purpose, the duo could even train only 27 days before the departure for the first time on the Paralympics bike, the wheels have even given it only two days before.

To make it difficult to fall a fall one week before departure to Japan, in particular the Rio-Third Kruse then had to fight with bleeding. The retraction in their fence discipline 4000 m even broke off the two on Wednesday. Now the focus is towards Paris 2024. As long as we do not have the medal, we opened an invoice, Förstemann said.

The Rostocker was in Beijing in 2008 and four years later in London at Olympia at the start. In 2019 he moved to Para cycling. At the World Cup at the beginning of 2020 in Canada, Kruse / Förzann spent third.