Olympia 2024 – Hamburg after No – as schockgefrostet – Süddeutsche.de

• The opponents of a German Olympic bid win surprisingly in the referendum.
• Only 48.4 percent vote in favor of the plan, the Olympic Games to bring 2024 to Hamburg. 51.6 per cent vote against it
• DOSB boss Alfons Hörmann accounted for. “Apparently, the Olympic spirit and Germany do not fit together at the moment.”

Peter Burghardt , Hamburg

The morning after awakes Hamburg under an overcast autumn sky, it blows a fresh wind. Even hanging the posters calling for a ‘yes’ to Olympia, but they now appear bizarre and are rapidly disappearing. The Advent night in which the project died in 2024, was rainy and quiet. The spokesman for the opponents, who have won the referendum so surprisingly, celebrated a little. The Friends of the Summer Games, however, can take their defeat on Sunday nor on Monday barely. What is there just happened?

Already in November 2015 thus ends a foray by the lobbyists at least until the awarding Congress the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in 2017 wanted to press ahead in Lima. In Peru occurred after things stand candidates Los Angeles, Paris, Rome and Budapest against each other – without the Free and Hanseatic City. 51.6 percent of Hamburg voted No and just 48.4 percent Yes. More than half of voters over 16 years is not “on fire”, as it would suggest the job candidate Motto

Hamburg does not follow Munich 1972 -. But Munich 2013

Hardly someone had this output expected. Hamburg therefore does not attempt to “Munich 1972″ emulate – then found the last time in Germany, the competition among the five rings instead. Hamburg Munich follows in 2013, two years ago rejected already, most respondents Upper Bavaria Winter Games 2022 from. How schockgefrostet occurred the top operator of the Hamburg initiative shortly after 21 clock on a Rathaustreppe from which they actually had a Triumph announce want.

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“The citizens of Hamburg have made a decision,” said Mayor Olaf Scholz, of itself for months Olympia had begun and now is experiencing a political defeats. The large part of the citizenry have wished for a different outcome, but the result was still clear and authentic. Even the vote will have consequences that go beyond Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein addition, fears of disappointing SPD man. The suspects especially another loser who was standing next to Scholz.

For Sport Germany this was “a major setback and low blow,” complained Alfons Hörmann, the president of the German Olympic Sports Confederation (DOSB). The coming generation will not get this sporting chance. Hörmann considers it tentatively makes little sense to think about a new start for Germany in 2028: “It seems that the Olympic spirit and Germany do not fit together at the moment.” By this, moreover, has not changed the fact that the IOC President has now become a German, Thomas Bach.

The change in sentiment in the population has been underestimated quaintly of politics, business and sport. Too late also noted the strategist Scholz that the resistance had grown significantly. “Say YES to today Olympics & amp; # Hamburg2024 Paralympic Games,” the Social Democrat and recreational rowers tweeted on election day. Everyone knows that you have wished for more favorable circumstances, he regretted afterwards and spoke of refugees, Fifa, terrorism.