First of all, Kira walkenhorst had to explain the bandage on her thigh. “It was a household accident,” said the Olympic champion, after she had discovered with a big Surprise in the Top circle of the German beach volleyball players back. “A glass broke, shards of glass, then I wanted to keep away the kids and I cut myself.”
However, unlike before the one and a half years, as pain and health problems, her career had stopped, could Walkenhorst smile on Friday in Hamburg over the small injury. “It has nothing to do with sports,” she said. Together with her longtime life partner, Mary, who in October 2018 triplets to the world, she attracts the children. “It is a great double exposure. But I just enjoy every training session,“ said Walkenhorst.
sporting the Comeback of the former world’s best block player in a mega-cool Beach-Story. Also with the help of alternative medicine, the return in the performance sports managed the 29-year-old walkenhorst. The first Comeback attempt fell through, because in the Corona of a crisis in her hometown of Hamburg, the daycare had to close, and to think no more regular Training was.
“I’m not surprised,” said her former Partner Laura Ludwig on the strong performance of the team walkenhorst: “Kira is Kira, knows how to play.” The native Essenerin had stated her career after numerous operations over. Not even one of your three babies, you could wear pain-free, she said once. The past is the past. “Actually I played well today, completely pain-free,” said Walkenhorst in August 2020.