Ein ghost is about top-class sport in Germany – the ghost of a competitive sport GmbH or Sportdeutschland AG. The possible names of the medal start-up suggest it: They stand for the detachment of state-sponsored Olympic sport from the structures of the German Olympic Sports Confederation (DOSB). Whether this will take place in a company wholly owned by the federal government, in an organization in which the DOSB is involved, or whether additional investors from the economy will be accepted – everything seems possible.
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Above all, top sport in Germany, funded with a few hundred million euros in tax money, under expert, strategic and independent leadership, with authority down to the Olympic bases, where top athletes gather, should lead to more medals at the Olympic Games. On the one hand, this would be the culmination of the incomplete top-level sport reform in German sport.
On the other hand, it would be the reversal of the DOSB created by Thomas Bach, today’s President of the International Olympic Committee, in 2006 through the merger of the Sports Confederation and the National Olympic Committee. It would be the loss of what Alfons Hörmann, the outgoing President of the DOSB, made the core of his work for eight years: to have power over top-class Olympic sport with trips to the games and appearances with the best.
“New social positioning”
The performance of the German Olympic team in Tokyo in ninth place in the medal table with 37 medals, ten of them gold, is considered a disappointment everywhere. Sports strategists and politicians use the 1992 Games in Barcelona as their yardstick, where the Olympic team made up of former GDR athletes and West Germans achieved 33 Olympic victories and won a total of 82 medals, third place in the ranking.
“If Team D wanted to join the three best nations in the medal ranking, a medal count of over 70 would be necessary,” writes the Institute for Applied Training Science Leipzig (IAT) in its analysis of the Tokyo Games almost thirty years later: ” On the current basis, this could at best be a long-term goal over at least two to three Olympic cycles (four years each / the editor). The prerequisite would be a general new social positioning of sport and competitive sport in Germany. “
The result at the Olympic Games in Tokyo is rated as disappointing.
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The authors call for a reorganization. Alluding to the top-level sports funding, which has risen to almost 300 million euros, by the Federal Ministry of the Interior alone, they write: “Money alone does not win medals – an efficiently managed competitive sports system is required. The development of a nationally controlled and coordinated promotion of competitive sports is being promoted in a targeted manner. ”The role models are UK Sport and High Performance Sport New Zealand.
The British have risen from a single Olympic victory in Atlanta in 1996 to a world power in Olympic sport through the establishment of decisive funding and downright radical non-funding of individual sports. London 2012 was a celebration and triumph with 29 Olympic victories, 65 medals and third place in the table. British sport is now paying the price with doping scandals in the heavily favored cycling and abuse debates in gymnastics and athletics. Anyone who is reminded of the GDR sports system by the rigor of the model sees themselves confirmed. If you want money, you have to guarantee medals, not mass participation. Promotion is a privilege, not a right. If you don’t deliver, you’re out.
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