The German Olympic Sports Confederation awaits for the winter games starting in six months in Beijing due to the Corona pandemic even stronger restrictions than in Tokyo. "We have received unofficial information that the restrictions can be even harder than here," said DOSB President Alfons Hörmann at the graduation PK of the German team in the Olympic village.
The DOSB is about the question of the German house, which was since 1988 in Seoul meeting place for athletes and partners of the NOK, but lacked the corona crisis in Tokyo. Hörmann has no good feeling when he looks towards Beijing, where the winter games start on February 4th. "The scenario of the past six to eight months is repeated," he said.
The International Olympic Committee does not want to express itself in Tokyo as the approval of spectators or the quarantine conditions. IOC President Thomas Bach also did not want to comment on the questionable human rights situation in China at his balance sheet PK on Friday.
Internationally, the pressure on the upcoming host country increases. Most recently, the European Parliament had called for government officials to omit the games when the situation for the minority of the Uighers or the human rights situation in Hong Kong, Tibet or inner Mongolia did not improve. Especially in the US, the scenario of a boycott also appears again and again, but from which Hörmann keeps nothing last.
"Such activities have never shown success that you wanted to achieve," he said. Instead, the athletes and athletes are to be prepared specifically "the topics are prepared. Which signals of the DOSB broadcast overall, we must discuss in all openness."
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