As a unknown girl, she went back to her school as a superstar: the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona were to turn the life of the then 14-year-old Franziska van Almsick. At the end of the games, they swam four medals: two of silver, two bronze. Only the golden was missing – it should stay that way forever. Franziska van Almsick, the unfinished. “This gold curse almost broke me,” she says today. It failed at four Olympic Games.
