Overview
- At a Bild event in Berlin, the two-time Olympic champion called the German pair among the favorites for the Winter Games.
- Hase and Volodin enter the Olympic season as reigning European champions and current World Championship silver medallists.
- The Deutsche Eislauf Union counts on the Berlin duo as its leading medal hope for the Games in Italy from February 6 to 22, 2026.
- Witt argued that narrowly missing gold at the World Championships in Boston in March removes the burden of the title ahead of the Olympics.
- She characterized recent free-skate errors at the Grand Prix in Canada as valuable lessons in a field she described as very strong and tightly contested.