Podcast 'The Tower Springer': insights into the life of young athletes in competitive sports

Podcast 'The Tower Springer': insights into the life of young athletes in competitive sports

podcast "The Tower jumpers": an insight into life in competitive sports

A new podcast entitled "The Tower Springer" offers a deep insight into the life of young athletes in competitive sports. Author Klaus Schirmer accompanied four girls and young women over a period of 13 years and gives a unique insight into their everyday life, competitions and personal development.

The podcast tells the story of Kieu, My, Anna and Talisa, which were selected for the tower jumping sport in kindergarten age. Through years of training, the four develop a close friendship and share the common dream of participating in the Olympic Games. But with increasing pressure to perform, your everyday life is being more and more structured. In addition to training in a Berlin swimming pool, you also do strength exercises, stretching exercises and coordination exercises. In addition, you also have to master the challenges of growing up.

The protagonists not only experience success, but also pain and setbacks. Tower jumping is a dangerous sport and the fear of jumping grows over the years. Despite the daily everyday life and the focus on the leap into the water, the personal development of young women is not always planned.

In six exciting episodes, the listeners witness this trip. The question of whether all the efforts are worthwhile runs through the podcast like a thread. In the end, the leap into life after competitive sport, which turns out to be different for each of the four protagonists.

The podcast "The Tower jumpers" will be available from July 18 wherever there are podcasts. In addition, it is also broadcast in the Deutschlandfunk app and as part of the program "Mikrocosm" of the Deutschlandfunk.