Hamburg’s First Mayor Olaf Scholz: “You have the accept a result, even if we would have wanted another. “
It is 20.33 clock, as you can hear a pin drop in the jam-packed restaurant Hamburg Arena in the public park. Joined us on the many screens is the anchorman of the transmitter “Hamburg1″ Helmut Schalthoff. He logs from the Town Hall. With trodden expression he announces what looming for 18 clock.
There are now as many of the 650,106 votes counted, that a turnaround for the Olympia supporters was virtually impossible, says Schalthoff. The majority of the rejecters is stable at four percentage points. It is quiet as a mouse in the restaurant. They all stare at the screen, and most schwant probably only at this moment, what has been just said. The dream has ended, discharge in nine years Olympic Games and Paralympics in Hamburg
In the arena, where the ice for the next match of the Hamburg Freezers glistens below flash on the bands even dozens of times of the Olympic slogan of the creators: “Unique to once!” The words are at this moment already only one vague memory of what had begun in Hamburg view in March with the win against Berlin so hopeful.
You would have a different outcome desired
A little later, the result will turn out. With a turnout of around 50.1 per cent 51.6 per cent of the Hamburg vote in the referendum on Sunday against the Olympic plans, 48.4 percent for the final result. 21,000 votes make the difference with far-reaching implications. This fails a German bid for the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games for the second time within two years after the decision of Munich and the surrounding area in 2013 against Winter Games 2022nd
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“It seems that the Olympic idea and Germany do not fit together at the moment,” says later DOSB boss Alfons Hörmann consternation. Whether sports politicians, local politicians, lobbyists, athlete or volunteer fighters for the Olympics in Hamburg are all on this evening as disappointed as surprised ZDF had yet reported on the basis of a telephone survey still by 18 clock by a majority of 56 percent.
kinked
Clearly the Hamburger Sport Senator Michael says Neumann (SPD): “It’s hard to believe that Hamburg has said no to this insane chance for urban development. I’ll even days and weeks shake his head. “The First Mayor Olaf Scholz (SPD) is there quite pragmatically on troubleshooting. He says: “We would have liked more favorable circumstances for a referendum. Right now a positive decision would have been important. But there is now no arguing about that conclusion. You have to accept the result, even if we would have wanted another. “
uncertainty in the population
Scholz plays on the refugee crisis, the terror of Paris and the scandals in the world of sports. What began in exhilarating party mood, ends on Sunday evening with storm and rain for Hamburg’s Olympic Ambassador Alexander Otto in Katzenjammer. Nevertheless found Otto, a great patron of the Hamburg Sports, quickly a similar explanation for the defeat: “In recent weeks, too many political events in many people has led to uncertainty and concern.”
But the unclear financing of the games and the dispute between federal and state governments is likely to have played a major role. The critic Joachim Lau of “Stop Olympia”, manifests itself in this direction: “The decisive reason was the financial debate. Hamburg did not believe that such a large amount would be taken over by the federal government. “Lau was delighted and surprised that so many rejecters” against the massive influence of the Hamburg-based media “, with” no “would have voted.
Florian Kasiske of “NOlympia” says: “We have noticed a change of mood in the city in recent weeks. People see that the money is invested elsewhere better. “For Scholz and his party this is a crashing defeat. He had Olympia in Hamburg called the most important aspect of this legislative period.
A disaster for the German sports was
Surprisingly, how wide the rejection in Hamburg was against the plans of the Senate. Although the red-green alliance ruling and the opposition CDU and FDP were with Scholz and only the left positioned itself against games in Hamburg, there were five of the seven Hamburg districts partly clear vote defeats, especially in Eimsbüttel and Altona. Here the clubs had advertised for the Olympic idea for weeks. Ultimately remained without the desired success.
Representatives of the sport and the Hamburg clubs seemed deeply saddened and as if they could not believe what was happening. “I am very disappointed and sad, this project would be a great opportunity for the city and its citizens have been”, said the HSV-chairman Dietmar Beiersdorfer. Long jumper Sebastian Bayer had campaigned at his home for months for the Olympics. He now said: “One must be careful with this word. But for the German Sport which is a disaster. “
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