Covid-19 Impact: Sponsors come to ex-world champs rescue, helps her during financial crisis

By   - 09/07/2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected all circles of life. From poor to rich everyone is suffering to make ends meet amid the widespread of the infection. Former world champion Aline Focken says she has been working at a 30 per cent position, which is not a good thing to make a living especially when she has further reduced the hours in the Olympic preparations. “That is why I contacted my sponsors and suppliers directly after the postponement because all contracts were set for August 30th. The feedback I got was all positive. Everyone said that although they are currently also suffering from the economic situation, they directly supported me. But the most important thing was the news from Sporthilfe because the support through ElitePlus funding is currently my main income,” adding that the decision to add another year to her career depends on financial options, reported ringen.de, German News Daily.

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Focken was about to hang her singlet post-Tokyo Games 2020, but after it got delayed she was ‘shocked’. But then the news of it being moved to 2021 came, she felt relieved. “For personal reason’s it was inconceivable for me to continue for another two years. At that point, I had already decided to extend it by one year. Suddenly I could see positive aspects in the shift. Because now I have more time to prepare and develop. Since I have not been fighting for so long in my new weight class, I can learn a lot every day even after 20 years of high-performance rings. So I understood the new situation relatively quickly as an opportunity – and somehow I think it’s cool,” the four-time world medallist said.

Life during coronavirus
The German wrestler says she is loving the current time. She gets to reach home early and spend time with family which was earlier difficult to do. “I am someone who still loves to go to training, I like to be with my team, I love travelling. Wrestling is super hard, but it just gives me so much. I love my sport with all my heart and it will be extremely difficult for me to end my career. At the same time, it is also important to me to determine the end myself. I want to quit as long as it is still fun and fulfilling. If day X comes next year, it will be very hard for me. But on the other hand, other things in life are just waiting. I became aware of this again during the Corona period. Just being at home in the evenings was so beautiful and so special that I don’t know anything else,” she said.

On things returning to its normal self, Focken says, she is a ‘little afraid’ as things will again become very stressful. “I usually get up at 6 a.m. and come home at 11 p.m., where I fall straight to bed. Closely timed between training, physio and my job as a health manager, constantly looking at the clock. When exposed to Corona, I realized how nice life can be with a little more free time. But I also got over this phase relatively quickly and now I have again the goal in mind to win the Olympic medal, which I still lack in my collection”.

She has confirmed the Tokyo Olympic quota in the 76kg weight class. The Tokyo Games will be held from July 23 to August 9.

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