Mödling district – No effect yet on clubs after the Olympics

When Anna Kiesenhofer from Niederkreuzstetten (Mistelbach district) was the first to cross the finish line in the Olympic road race, one person was only moderately surprised: Georg Tazreiter. “It was already known in the local cycling scene that Anna is very good. When she was ten minutes ahead, I already said that she wins because she was the best in the escape group. “

Tazreiter (35 years old) competed in the 2010 Track Cycling World Championships. The police officer in Mödling now has his own club, the Multigate Cycling Team. “We’re not that public yet, we have ten or twelve drivers who are active in races. If we add the athletes who drive a bit as a hobby, it is 25 or 30, ”says Tazreiter. He cannot report a rush from recent domestic successes – Kiesenhofer’s Olympic gold, Patrick Konrad’s Tour de France stage win -.

On the contrary: “As I drove in the juniors, we had 60 to 80 drivers. At the Austrian championships it was 20. “The breadth is lacking, the quality is right:“ We have some very promising talents in Austria. ”

The situation at the Mödling Swimming University (SUM) is contrary, as President Veronika Stefanik reports: “We just had our summer camps. I even had to cancel those interested. “

In the club, the SUM, including beginners and baby swimming, has around 350 members: “All groups are full. We try not to produce waiting lists. ”In competitive swimming, Stefanik expects a performance dip in about two years. Since the 2009 and 2010 build-up cohorts had hardly any water training in the past year and a half due to the pandemic. At the Olympics, Stefanik and Co. followed the local swimmers around Felix Auböck, who started his career at SUM in the early 2000s, very closely. “That means getting up at 3:30 am and watching his races,” said Stefanik with enthusiasm, fourth place over 400 meters of crawl hurt: “Felix is ​​such a humble fellow. He would have deserved a medal, even though fourth place is a super performance. “

Judoka want to use a short tailwind

The headlines have also filled the red-white-red judoka in the last few days. Michaela Polleres took silver, Shamil Borchashvili bronze. “That’s mega”, says Thomas Haasmann, mastermind of the Galaxy Judo Tigers from Perchtoldsdorf, happily. He himself competed in the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles. None of his athletes made it to Tokyo. “I don’t care a bit about that,” admits Haasmann. Some of his athletes would have had good chances, such as Maximilian Schneider, who fought in the same weight class as Borchasvili.

“He used to play with him, but he quit and became one of the highest paid male photo models. I can’t hold it against him. “It is important to use the tailwind of the medals:” Because judo is unfortunately a marginal sport in Austria. After the Olympics, the attention will be over again. “

“Since there is no coverage of hockey on television, many are unaware that there is hockey at the Olympics.” Neudorf chairman Paul Pultar

The hockey community would like to have this problem. “Since there is no coverage of hockey on television, many are not even aware that there is hockey at the Olympics,” regrets Neudorf’s chairman Paul Pultar. If you want to follow the hockey competitions, you have to soften up on YouTube. Cedric d’Souza, who also trains the district’s young talents, acts as an analyst there. The club benefits from indoor world and European championships, at which Austria is always playing for medals: “We can cannibalize that for ourselves.”