Witte, the world figure skating champion, was the most famous sports star in the former GDR. Although she was criticized in the German press after the merger of East and West Germany and labeled a "spy" and "secret agent," the beautiful, sexy star remained an icon for many male sports fans.
Files from the Stasi, the former East German secret police, show that Witte and the Stasi maintained a longstanding partnership. At the time, the government granted Vetter a car, a home and a visa that allowed him to travel around the world. In return, Witte was required to maintain a relationship with the Stasi.
Despite the fact that Vitter's nude photo appeared in the U.S. magazine Playboy in 1998, Vitter also told Stasi 10 years earlier, "I couldn't be as successful as I am today without you and your generous support. You guys are the only people I can count on."
Despite the German media's interest in revealing Vettel's situation, Vettel's status in world sport is unassailable. The pretty German woman was a two-time gold medalist at the 1984 and 1988 Winter Olympics and is known to ice sports fans as the Queen of Ice. Now, Witte works as a TV commentator.
Born in the city of Karl-Marx-Stadt, Witte is 1.65 meters tall and weighs 52 kilograms, an ideal figure for figure skating. She practiced skating since the age of 5 and became national junior champion at age 7, winning the national title in 1981. Since 1984, Vettel has won six consecutive European championships and three gold medals at the World Championships, and is known as the "Queen of the Ice".
Figure skating competition time is only 4 minutes, and Vettel every day in the ballet hall or the ice rink to practice for several hours, hard training and her love of literature, music, ballet, disco, and quickly improve her ice dance skills and artistic expression. In the "Battle of Carmen", Vettel with exquisite dance skills, sports and art into one, difficult spin, thrilling triple jump and passionate dance, so that the tens of thousands of viewers were mesmerized, amazed.
Witte is not only a good ice skater, but also beautiful and charming, and speaks fluent English. She is not only the target of journalists, but also an idol in the hearts of young people. More than 40,000 letters from figure skating fans and suitors have piled up at Vetter's residence.
It is important to dare to surpass oneself and dare to challenge life, which is the belief of Vetter's life, who, to the accompaniment of her favorite song "Tell me, where are the flowers?
With the musical accompaniment of her favorite song "Tell Me Where the Flowers Are?", she embraced the Olympics with her heart and soul time and time again, expressing her pursuit of the ideal of peace.
Witte won the 1984 and 1988 Winter Olympics, four world championships and six European championships in her illustrious career. In the Olympic Museum, Vettel's name, sports career of various materials played repeatedly in the museum hall, in the Olympic short film "the essence of sports", Vettel a moment passionate and unrestrained performance, a moment floating glide ......
In July 1988, Vettel accepted the Olympic medal in Lausanne, presented by the International Olympic Committee's Samaranch, and said goodbye to her illustrious 10-year Olympic career, traveling west to the United States, where she partnered with famed men's figure-skating star Poytanon, dabbling in lucrative commercial gigs and starring in the movie "Carmen".
In the stadium of the Calgary Winter Olympics, the powerful music of "Carmen" was played twice, and the German girl Witte, dressed in a fuchsia blouse and black skirt, won the women's singles skating title with her light and stretchy dance over the American "Black Beauty" Thomas. From Sarajevo to Calgary, Vettel became the first female athlete in 52 years to defend her title after Norway's Sonja Heine won three Winter Olympics gold medals. It was called a "Carmen-on-Carmen firefight" at the time, as both Vetter and Thomas chose the score from the opera "Carmen" as their soundtrack for the competition.
On June 23, 1993, in Lausanne, Switzerland, the Olympic Museum on Lake Geneva was inaugurated. In the warm cheers, wearing a white T-shirt, "ice queen" Vettel holding the sacred flame from Olympia, Greece, along the steps, dashing to the Olympic Museum door of the sacred flame platform, in the solemn "Olympic Ode" music, Vettel In the solemn "Ode to the Olympics" music, Witte lit the Lausanne Olympic flame that will never be extinguished.