A review of the Olympic Games in Tokyo
The Olympic Village closing on August 11 also concludes our team’s work in Tokyo. Time for a summary: our technicians supported almost 900 athletes with more than 1,500 products. Most of them were members of team sports (handball, volleyball and basketball), followed by track-and-field athletes, wrestlers and karatekas. Some cases were particularly memorable:
The skateboarder Tyler Edtmayer from Germany came to the service station with a TV crew from the German channel ARD. His broken arm was treated by Luis Molla (in the picture on the right) with an OmoLoc and a ManuLoc Rhizo long. As unbelievable as it may seem: even Tyler Edtmayer was able to continue his competition – and the ARD had some more material for their program “The Olympics are in the books – highlights from the Games”.
One of the tallest visitors was the Russian beach volleyball player Oleg Stoyanovskiy. Measuring 2.07 meters, Oleg was provided with Sports Compression products by Maximilian Poetzschner (in the picture on the left, standing on a stool) to aid his recovery – which was much needed by Oleg and his partner after their long and strenuous journey to win the silver medal.
In addition to the athletes’ many injuries, this year also presented some “peculiar” cases: Luis de la Fuente, for example, coach of the Spanish men’s football team, broke the fingers on his right hand – when cheering the team’s qualifying for the Olympic final. He was treated with a ManuLoc long by our technician Luis Molla, a fellow countryman from Valencia.
The Bauerfeind Team was able to help each of their visitors with one or several products. “We worked extremely well as a team. We all supported each other,” reports the Project Manager, Jörg Ritzerfeld (in the picture on the right next to Oleg Stoyanovskiy).
It is no surprise then that our Tokyo Team was very much appreciated by athletes, team physicians and physicians from the polyclinic.