Lea Schuler, a German soccer player who will compete in the 2024 Paris Olympics, and Lara Wadreau, an Austrian sailor, have split after more than three years of dating.
Vadreau, who won gold in the mixed dinghy event with partner Lucas Mahr on Thursday, shared the news in a recent interview, explaining that he still has a good relationship with his former partner.
“Leah is no longer my partner.” Vadreau told O3.“Obviously I’m very proud of her, we’re still very good friends and I wish her all the best.”
Schuler, a forward for Bayern Munich and Germany, won the bronze medal after Germany beat Spain 1-0 in the repechage match on Friday.
It’s unclear exactly when or why they stopped doing that.
Schuller and Vadreau had hoped to spend time together in Paris, but things went awry. According to the Daily Mail.
“It’s great to have both of them in Paris,” she told the outlet ahead of the Olympics. “Maybe we’ll meet a few times.”
“We see each other very rarely, maybe 100 days a year, because Lara is training hard for the Olympics and is away from home a lot.”
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Vadreau, 30, and Schuller, 26, have been partners since at least 2021, according to Vadreau’s Instagram post. A photo of the two of them together topless While in Croatia.
Schuller said they had previously lived together in Munich. Joint interview with FC Bayern December 2022.
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At the time, the couple explained what it’s like to date an elite-level athlete.
“It really helps that we both understand what we have to do for sport and that we don’t get to see each other very often because we’re often far apart. Otherwise it would be really difficult,” Vadreau, a multiple world and European champion, told the outlet.
Shuler explained that they didn’t see each other much because of their training schedules.
“On the other hand, if I wasn’t an athlete, we would see each other more often. Lara is away for two weeks, I’m with the national team for 10 days, and then she’s on the road again…we often only see each other for three to five days at a time,” Schuller said.
“It’s a bit like a long-distance relationship. We don’t live in different places. We live together in Munich, but one of us is always away.”
