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Olympia Park boss criticizes DLV after European Championships

MArion Schöne, head of the Munich Olympic Park, has criticized the cooperation with some officials and associations after the successful European Championships – especially with the German Athletics Association (DLV). “Some of the attitude was: you are the organizer, we can’t earn anything here, and now see how you do it,” said Schöne in an interview with the Süddeutsche Zeitung.

“Management with patriarchal structure”

It was actually clear to her: “This is a home event with nine sports, there must be incredible support from the German associations. But we had to pay for everything in terms of advertising and promotion, every service that came from some German associations cost money,” said Schöne.

According to the 59-year-old, she was “surprised that our event did not even appear prominently on the websites of some associations”. She mentioned the rowing association, for example. There you were “somewhere far behind on the website, that was it with the support. You no longer understand the world.” The associations had “zero financial risk”: “But when it came to free tickets, everyone was there.”


Good face to bad game? Marion Schöne (second from left), here, among others, next to Bavaria’s Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann (third from left)
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Image: picture alliance / Eibner press photo

With the DLV there had been trouble about the start times at the marathon. In this context, Idriss Gonschinska, DLV CEO, and DLV President Jürgen Kessing “clearly created a mood against the Olympic Park,” complained Schöne.

After Eugene’s German World Cup debacle, she also wrote Gonschinska and Kessing an email “that we should sit down and think about what we can do.” Nothing came again, no ideas, no constructive suggestions.”

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