Olympic Games 2024: Berlin has pictures, but an idea Hamburg – tagesspiegel

16/03/2015 22:46 clock of Friedhard Teuffel

At the end of the German Olympic Sports Confederation president leaves little doubt: a competition here is ended. There are Hamburg with a radiant winner. And with Berlin a humiliated loser. Defeat, fine. But so?

He still makes a break, a short, one last. Is the ever necessary, now really comes again to voltage? “The unanimous proposal is”, Alfons Hörmann had begun, the President of the German Olympic Sports Confederation, of the German Olympic Sports Confederation before his break can be filled with last hopes of Berlin and the air get to cheer in Hamburg.

Background him the Bureau and the Executive Board of the German Olympic Sports Confederation have built, they should demonstrate what Hormann said with one accord. Some serious look straight ahead, some smile, some look solemnly. Then Hörmann redeemed himself and all others, and sends his Allgäu idiom Hamburg on the journey that will end once on Mount Olympus, in 2024 or 2028. The bitterest moment for Berlin this evening but there was still to come.

The winner takes it all

As a referee makes Hörmann also the last clear that just ended a contest with a winner and a loser. The winner takes it all, maybe even two chances to get the International Olympic Committee awarded the Olympic and Paralympic Games. To get one from scratch imagine the world and, moreover, for weeks to have a party. The loser gets nothing. Almost nothing. At most, a few matches in the Olympic tournament. But this is not a good consolation for a city that can host the final of the Champions League this year.

A two-day Olympic finals it was at the Otto-Fleck-lane in Frankfurt am Main, where the large Sports Associations in the country sit, a neutral place, next to the stadium where the Eintracht Frankfurt currently much better football plays than the competitors in Berlin and Hamburg.

Two completely different candidates

Berlin traveled as a factual outsiders and perceived favorite, the most recent poll had shown a higher approval of the population of Hamburg, 64 to 55, but Berlin is just capital, a city that is so good, are trusts each art piece, is open to all. As it should go something else.

Hamburg and Berlin were so much alike in many ways, they say. But in this competition clashed two very different candidates. A virtual ran on a stone, a beautiful animation is to be celebrated on an island in the Port of Hamburg, on the Olympics, the photos of the finished Olympic Stadium, on the blue train Usain Bolt few years ago as fast as before him and after him no different person. Berlin has pictures. But Hamburg an idea.