Eating together in the Deutsches Haus @home
In total, more than a hundred Olympic participants had come to the welcome ceremony, including quite a few athletes who had already returned earlier due to the strict Corona rules. After the reception in the Römer, the DOSB invited its team members to a graduation ceremony in the “German House at Home”. There were around 300 guests in a Frankfurt restaurant. There was no German house in Tokyo due to the corona measures.
Ministry of the Interior: Reform of elite sport funding is not yet taking effect
The German team finished the games in Tokyo with the worst record since the games in Barcelona in 1992 in ninth place in the medal table. The riders and canoeists were the most successful with eleven of the 37 medals. The federal government nevertheless sees the Tokyo balance sheet as a “very decent result”.
A spokesman for the interior ministry responsible for sport said that there are good sporting achievements behind this, which you have to recognize and for which you should also thank. On the other hand, this overall result looks worse than in previous years. This should be an incentive for further investments in top-class sport.
Friday: “Money alone is not the solution”
Dagmar Freitag, chairwoman of the sports committee in the Bundestag, sees it a little differently. “Money alone is obviously not the solution; after all, the financial support for competitive sport by the federal government has been massively increased since 2016,” said the SPD politician. She called on the DOSB to implement the steps agreed five years ago in the competitive sports reform: “I am only thinking of the turmoil that will continue into 2021 over the establishment of the scientific network, which I believe is a very important point of the reform,” said they. If such and other measures meet massive resistance from organized sport, are delayed or prevented in individual cases, “the call for more money should not come first”.