It was 21 clock, much later than planned, the City Hall bells struck on the hour and Olaf Scholz had to smile for a moment even. Then admitted Hamburg’s First Mayor hitherto bitter defeat of his term of office: “Hamburg,” says Scholz, “is not to apply for Olympic Games”. The Senate accept the negative result of the referendum Olympia, even if he did things differently.
51.6 to 48.4 percent this vote expected at the end. Against games on the Elbe. For an Olympic bid for the Hanseatic city. 50.1 percent of the electorate who participates, the other half appeared disinterested, at least not sufficiently motivated a sign of Olympic Games set. The bottom line is a clear result: No
That is the view of sport, incredibly bitter end of last indefinitely Olympic evening on German soil! , “For the next generation”, for the next 25 years so, as summed up Alfons Hörmann, the Chief of the German Olympic Sports Confederation, his disappointment together, have the Olympics in Germany now no future. “Germany and the Olympic idea currently apparently no longer fit together.”
Games will take place in Los Angeles, Rome, Paris or Budapest
In fact: After Munich Olympics had rebuffed two years ago – the vote on a bid for the Winter Games in 2022 was clearly lost, the No. Hamburg to Summer Games at the same Olympic spirit should permanently expel them from Germany.
The Games in 2024 will now take place either in Los Angeles, Rome, Paris or even in Budapest. The latter would be after the events of the past few weeks a particularly apartes character of modern nations. A referendum will in the Hungarian capital in any event, just as little give as in the Italian, French or in the US metropolis.
On the other hand, about were the proponents of the Olympic bid in the evening their defeat agreed it was probably just that bad news in recent weeks that have Hamburg Application broken his neck. Hardly the German Olympic Sports Confederation had somewhat surprisingly decided in March this year to Berlin and Hamburg as German applicants and thus in the cool Hanseaten a touch of Olympic euphoria sparked, the general conditions for the promised by the Senate referendum week after week clouded , Ukraine crisis Fifa scandal, wave of refugees, DFB scandal, terrorist attacks.
Until recently saw polls a majority of “yes”
Each of these headline-grabbing topics was suitable, the alignment of a large, cheerful, but also to let always seem incongruous with enormous financial expenditure associated Sports Day. Each topic in itself could have been but can also slide to the side with a little good will and a bit of spite. In the densely populated but where the news followed one another, hardly anyone could escape the Gathering at the same skepticism. The approval ratings in the polls, which had tightened after nomination by the DOSB first went last significantly. And, although not only the vast majority of the citizenry parties, but also the economy had placed far behind the Olympic ambitions of the Hanseatic city.
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Nevertheless, had until recently all the opinion polls a majority predicted for the Olympic bid. Even on Sunday evening, the research group elections had predicted 56 percent approval rating. From such figures were the proponents of the games, their greatest supporters had gathered in the Hamburg Barclay-card arena into a kind of election party, can only dream of. From the beginning of counting the opponents of the Olympic bid had the lead. All other rubbed their eyes and hoped long and persistent that the counting would still take a different direction at the end. But indeed not.
Those 50 percent of the electorate Hamburger, who participated in this referendum were mostly against a sports festival on the Elbe. And if you take the skeptical voices of the past few days as a yardstick, then that also had something to do with the fact that the Hanseatic city with the federal government could not agree on a financing plan in advance of the vote.
No financial commitments of de Maizière
On the contrary: Until recently, had been pushed through from Berlin messages after which one there anything but amused was about the plans of the Hamburg mayor, after which the city wanted to pay more than 1.2 billion euros for the Olympic Games. 6.2 million Euro should then contribute to the federal government. But the coy. Not even the tepid commitment did not change anything, the Thomas de Maizière had submitted on Friday to Olympia. Financial commitments not made the Minister.
So in 2015 had at the end of this first Advent only the Olympic opponents reason to celebrate. He was “stunned” in view of the result, known “NOlympia” spokesman Dirk Seifert, he had not reckoned with the success of his campaign. His fellow Michael Rotschuh known that he was proud of the Hamburger. The city now have a free hand and could “reschedule”. A thought, even the Olaf Scholz could abgewinnen something. “In the end,” said the mayor, “Hamburg have always found the way forward.”
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