Germany would like to play the Olympic Games in around fifteen years. However, the way there is far – and the first problems already exist.
“We support a German application for the execution of the Olympic and Paralympic Games”: This passage is supported in the coalition agreement of the prospective black and red government from the CDU/CSU and SPD presented last Wednesday. It also says that it is advocated “especially with regard to the selection of the competition sites to make the games a festival for all of Germany.”
Olympic Games in Germany would be a long -term project. The venues have already been determined up to and including 2032. So far, the federal government has favored an application for games 2040. However, an application for 2036 would already be possible-or only for 2044. A problem with regard to the Olympic application is that there is still no rough concepts for an application. Which cities would be possible?
By May 31, German cities and regions that want to apply as an Olympic manager must have submitted a concept as part of a three-stage model at the DOSB. However, there is no uniform national concept, but every federal state has to think about one independently.
By the end of September of this year, the concepts will be checked for the fulfillment of the minimum requirements and the corresponding plausibility. The DOSB announced that the choice of an application concept for the games should take place at the latest by the end of September 2026 “at an extraordinary general meeting. The members must then confirm this.
So far, four locations can at least imagine the orientation of the games: Berlin in cooperation with the smaller partner Leipzig, Hamburg, Munich and the Rhein-Ruhr region. Sports economist Wolfgang Maennig, who was held in Seoul in 1988, complains about the lack of concepts. He told the “Sport Information Service” (SID) that there are currently little really resilient concepts in the applicant cities, only a little internationally presentable and testable “. He added: “Above all, there are many claims.”
The “Spiegel” also reports something similar. According to this, the DOSB had justified the rejection of a national concept with the fact that the International Olympic Committee (IOC) requested a huge central Olympic village. An Olympic village must be easily accessible from all competition venues and must not be too far away. DOSB President Thomas Weikert and IOC member Michael Mronz could not respond to the request of the medium for evidence of this IOC claim.
Maennig also performed in the “SID” conversation: “Internationally presentable Olympic concepts include a strong ‘Reason Why’, why do we do this? Then come a sports facility concept, an environmental concept, an environmental concept, an environmental concept, a accommodation concept, a financing concept, etc. and sorry: a convincing concept for the promotion of top German athletes. there is almost nothing. “
The Professor of Economic Policy at the University of Hamburg also complained that it does not make sense that all applicants are trying to make a decision in the next year. The basis is then similar to now. He thinks it is more appropriate to “concentrate on one or a maximum of two cities instead of being tortured four city clusters”.
Other countries continue to be there: As the “Spiegel” reports, South Korea is already talking about the IOC about the 2036 Olympics. Unlike Germany, other interested parties such as Qatar and India have already had plans.