Politically powerful, that is.
Germany’s chancellor, Angela Merkel:
In an interview with a woman’s magazine Merkel said she wished she could be a gymnast and conquer the art of turning and leaping on the beam, the 1.25m-high apparatus used in women’s gymnastics and which requires a great deal of elegance, endurance and precision. …
Merkel, 54, who was voted the most powerful woman in the world for the second time by Forbes magazine last month, has admitted in the past that she was often terrified of sports lessons, especially jumping and gymnastics. …
Angela Merkel: I wish I’d been a gymnast – Guardian
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