The defeat for the German Olympic fans hurts all the more because Hamburg has given them. Hamburg had opposite Berlin given preference for the Olympic bid, because the agreement seemed safe there. The polls said between results of up to 70 percent support ahead, after all, still last 56. That it turned out differently, is a sensation.
The No to Hamburg bid for the Olympic Summer Games 2024 and 2028 has many reasons: it was not clear for the Hamburg citizens how expensive the fun really are and who should pay it, federal government or City. The refugee crisis has come for “inopportune” as the DOSB boss Alfons Hörmann said. The Terror of Paris also hurt. And some may have ticked also No, because there allegedly are on the Elbe no flat water rowing.
But the main reason was the distrust of citizens in relation to the sport. The well-deserved mistrust, we have to say.
Some insiders has long been clear that the sport is a pre-democratic institution. Subjecting it understands the zeros before the decimal point. Mostly you have to talk about organized crime, as in the Fifa. This knowledge of the pigsty Sports has arrived with the public.
The recent scandal is the State Doping in Russia. About Kenya we hear soon probably similar. Not sports organizations have revealed that, but whistleblowers and journalists. The former boss of the World Athletics Federation, Lamine Diack was even directly involved. And the new chief Sebastian Coe appeased long, because he obviously felt disturbed in its shops.
The outcry of the German IOC President Thomas Bach did not materialize as, although the most important Olympic sport is concerned. He has so far not managed to liberate the IOC from the reputation of corruption and megalomania. Once again, a democracy has said no to the Olympics. As in Oslo, Stockholm, Graubünden, Krakow, Vienna and Boston, where referendums last failed or politics withdrew the application.
And of course in Munich, where citizens two years ago said stop. At that time feared the black painting losers, as now in Hamburg, the No means for decades the end for German Olympic ambitions. One year later, German sport had changed his mind again, to have of course responded without the rejection of Munich. Perhaps would be something different than asking weiterso.
The German sports fan may console himself. Hamburg’s application would have been probably a chance against Paris, Rome, and especially Los Angeles, since 2024 probably the European Football Championship will be held in Germany. Critics suspected anyway, the true purpose of the campaign were not the games, but the application itself. In those six years, the sport of politics could demand more tax money to make the nation more competitive. When DOSB one spoke quite openly about increases of at least ten percent.
Is the German sports wise, he learns from this defeat. He could make its structure more slender, many regional and district sports federations or national trade associations are superfluous. Above all, he needs to ask what those are, which lead him after the second defeat in two years. A major shortcoming of the Hamburg job was as uninspired, uninspiring and bureaucratic German sport occurred, including the politicians involved and the BWL types that accompanied the application. New heads need the Sportland.
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