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Katarina Witt Praises Generation X, Questions Youth Resilience in Focus Interview

The two-time Olympic champion says aging should be embraced rather than treated as a problem.

Overview

  • Witt says her Generation X keeps workplaces running and credits it with building a great deal through diligence and discipline.
  • She questions whether younger people have the necessary resilience and contrasts her cohort’s decisiveness with a 28-year-old’s hesitation about career choices.
  • The comments were published in Focus and were reported by major German outlets on November 10.
  • Witt, born in 1965 and turning 60 on December 3, won Olympic figure skating gold in 1984 and 1988 for East Germany and later for reunified Germany.
  • She is now an entrepreneur who runs the Kurvenstar sports studio in Potsdam and serves as patron of the local sports festival Inklusiv gewinnt.