VGermany will be able to enjoy the national team for four, five, six years. “Then I see dark clouds gathering when it comes to talent and young talent,” predicted Rudi Völler when he visited the Sports Committee of the German Bundestag. If the prospects are so poor for football, the sport with the greatest popularity, what about youngsters in the Olympic and non-Olympic disciplines?
Officials and strategists complained loudly enough about the decline when the German Olympic team at the Tokyo 2021 Summer Games only had ten Olympic victories and 37 medals. Then, once again, they set up working groups to reform elite sport. But what if the decline of top-class sport in Germany is not a question of organization?
