After her resignation in the summer, Aline Rotter-Focken is looking forward to having her first child, which will be born in May.
After her retirement in the summer, Aline Rotter-Focken is looking forward to her first child, who will be born in May. “With so much fullness, I haven’t had time to feel emptiness at all,” the Olympic wrestling champion from Tokyo told the Münchner Merkur and the tz. The 30-year-old longs for a little “domesticity and peace” “after so much hustle and bustle in the past years”.
The 2014 World Champion does not miss competitive sport “one bit”, as the Krefeld native emphasised: “I would never have thought that.” Rotter-Focken ended her career after the Olympic Games in Tokyo, and in future she will be the competitive sports coordinator at the German Wrestling Federation (DRB).
Rotter-Focken came in second behind Olympic long jump champion Malaika Mihambo in the vote for Sportswoman of the Year. The hype surrounding her continued after the Summer Games in Japan. “Everyone is freaking out right now, and everyone wants to know about you,” said Rotter-Focken: “But at the same time, you’re cleaning your bathroom, and even as an Olympic champion, you still have to take out your rubbish. “
