19 Women Athletes to Watch at the 2022 Olympics

Sport: Long-track speed skating
Country: Germany

At 49, Claudia Pechstein will become the oldest Winter Olympian in history when she takes the ice in Beijing, and what a career it's been. Pechstein has competed in eight Olympics and won five gold medals and nine medals total, mostly in the 3,000- and 5,000-meter events. Of her soon-to-be record-breaking Olympic appearance, Pechstein told the Associated Press, "It's for me more than the gold."