"The snowmobile has no rearview mirrors, there's no way to turn back, I just have to move forward."
That's why the world's greatest snowmobile, Francisco Friedrich, fell in love with the sport, and yesterday the legendary helmsman, who has won 13 World Championships, and his companion Tolsten Maggis, won the gold medal in the men's doubles snowmobile event. It is worth mentioning that his other two groups of teammates won the second and third places respectively, which is also the first time that a delegation has won the gold, silver and bronze medals in the winter Olympics at the Beijing Winter Olympics.
So far, the German team has won nine gold medals at the Winter Olympics, seven of which were won at the Snow Dragon National Bobsleigh Center, which undoubtedly shows Germany's strong performance in this event. Among them, as a star helmsman at the level of the god and the world leader in the project, Friedrich has won 15 gold medals in the IBSF International Snowmobile and Steel Frame Snowmobile Federation World Cup in the double and four-person snowmobile events in the 20-21 season!
Born in 1990, Friedrich won his first world title in Altenberg in 2013 after joining the national team at the age of 20, making him the youngest world champion in the world. Such a young person can have such an ability, and the youth army with Friedrich as the team also gives the coach the hope of impacting the world's strongest teams. The following year they were challenged by the Sochi Winter Olympics, but they suffered a major blow...
"Wow~ Sochi!" Friedrich, who had just entered the national team at the 10-year Winter Olympics, came to one of the world's top stages four years later. Based on Germany's strong performance in the snowmobile event, the young and crazy Friedrich inevitably began to consider reaching the podium and even winning the gold medal. However, because of the gap in snowmobile hardware, they only finished sixth, and what is more embarrassing is that it was the first time in more than 50 years that the German snow team missed the winter Olympic podium, which was a shame for Friedrich, who came to Sochi with the World Cup title.
At that point, Friedrich vowed he wouldn't let the same thing happen a second time. After returning to Germany for a week of rest, Friedrich began training, and during the Pyeongchang Winter Olympic cycle he welcomed the champion teammate Tolsten Maggis who played with him since then, as a decathlete, he provided the team with a strong starting explosive start, and last night's third round was also assisted by Maggis, the duo set a record for the fastest starting time in 4.93 seconds.
Friedrich in Pyeongchang in 2018 is already known, because in the snowmobile race, which is almost as accurate as a thousandth of a second, the History of the Winter Olympics has won a gold medal at the same time after the 1998 Nagano Winter Olympics! After four rounds of competition between them and the Canadian duo in the double bobsleigh race, the total time was 3:16.86 and they finished first! And that's not all, in the subsequent four-person snowmobile race, the Friedrich team beat their compatriots to win the gold medal in the event, leading Margis to become the fifth athlete in German history to win two gold medals in the double and four-person snowmobile event at the same Winter Olympics!
However, in Friedrich's view, the tie champion of the double snowmobile, in the final analysis, still failed to distinguish a winner and loser, in order to get his own gold medal, the Beijing Winter Olympic cycle he began more rigorous training, which also allowed the 15 gold medals in the 20-21 season to witness him and his team step by step to Beijing, achieving the final back-to-back Winter Olympic championship! This time, on the top podium of the tandem bobsleigh, he won a gold medal that belonged to himself and his country.
His obsession and love for the sport, like his idol Schumacher, even though his introductory brother suffered a serious accident and fell into a coma for three weeks during training in 2005, he has always maintained his love for the sport and vowed to fight for it for the rest of his life. In addition, as a world leader, he also has a lot of patterns, he helped the Austrian athlete Benjamin team to seek sponsorship, from the beginning of the donation of 500 euros to it, so far has helped him to pull nearly 8 million euros of sponsorship, for which he has only one sentence:
"If only Germans were left in this project, the sport wouldn't last long."
Such a "wolf raising plan" undoubtedly reminds us of China's national table tennis team, and Friedrich also has such strength and boldness, 2018-19 season to the present four seasons, the entire Beijing Winter Olympic cycle in the double, four-person snowmobile ranking first all year round, in addition to failing to win the double, four-person snowmobile season double in 2018, he won the double in 2017, 19, 20 and 21.
As Friedrich's coach, Leopold recalled that after winning the double gold medal in PyeongChang in 2018, the "proud" Friedrich had said that he would not participate in the first and second training of the four-person snowmobile the next day. But today, four years later, he has no time to celebrate, the obsession with gold medals and the desire to be first in history, we must know that when the athlete who won the most awards in the history of the World Championships and won more than 100 medals in the World Cup get serious, the result of the Olympic double gold medal (double, four-person snowmobile) defending the title may come true...