The German Olympic Sports Confederation (DOSB) has defended its athletes' performance at the Winter Olympics in Italy, with DOSB CEO Otto Fricke stating it was not a catastrophe but also not a stellar achievement. Germany secured eight gold medals, placing fifth in the medal standings, a decline from their second-place finish in 2022 with twelve golds. A significant frustration was the fourteen fourth-place finishes, narrowly missing medals. Athletes and former skier Felix Neureuther have called for reforms in elite sports funding, citing issues like fragmented responsibilities and rising costs, while the DOSB highlights the difficulty of the fourth-place finishes as indicative of world-class performance.