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Aileen Christina Frisch (born 25 August 1992) is aSouth Korean luger. Frisch competed at the 2018 Winter Olympics for South Korea.
Sports career
In 2012, Frisch became world junior female singles luge champion, competing as a German.
Frisch failed to make the German luge team for the 2014 Winter Olympics.
She retired from luging in 2015, at age 22. After her retirement, she was contacted by German coaches hired by South Korea to become a naturalized South Korean and join the South Korean luge team. At first, she refused, but then in 2016, she acquiesced and acceded to a second request, when she started missing the competition and travel in internationalsport. In December 2016 she became a South Korean citizen so she could legally compete on the South Korea team at the 2018 Winter Olympics.