Isabell Werth, Germany’s most successful Olympionician, has once again criticized the sports show that the German riding sports association FN had come into trouble by failing some top officials.
A new beginning is “urgently needed to be able to have sporting success in the future”. It is “It was high time that a new president comes, a new team is shaped, a new structure is created”.
The eight -time Olympic champion supports a tough reform course if you “Riding Olympic Games in 20 years” wool. Before the change of management, the FN worked like a “marginal sport” and not like an organization that was the most successful German sports association at the Olympic Games in Paris.
Association was “too long in the comfort zone”
“The horse has such an important meaning, not only in sports, but also as a leisure partner, in the medical field, in the therapeutic area – like no other animal”says Werth to the sports show, the association had disregarded that in the past.
He got himself “Too long in the comfort zone” Founded and the decline of the sport approved. There were too many responsible persons in the FN, said Werth, the “Maybe at some point have become too comfortable” and have rested on old laurels.
Investigations because of Unfaithful suspicion
Last September, the sports show reported on the FN’s financial situation. The public prosecutor’s office in Münster continues to investigate five former top officials of the FN on suspicion of infidelity.
The spokesman for the investigative authority now told the sports show that the public prosecutor’s office would investigate the questions whether commission payments were justified and whether these payments were also justified “were appropriate at a time when the association was not so good”. In addition, it is determined whether pension payments that could have added up to 600,000 of yours in some officials were legal.
In the association there is now “Wind of Change”
The new FN President Martin Richenhagen has confirmed to the sports show that one at the association center in Warendorf “One or the other body found in the basement” have. The biggest problems could be solved quickly, it is now in the association, according to Richenhagen, one “Wind of Change: So here a different breeze is blowing here than some time ago.” Overall, the climate is recently “Very, very good.”
Richenhagen was elected the new president by the extraordinary general meeting of the FN in November. At the beginning of May he wants to be confirmed by the FN in his office.