Mini-Olympics for 1000 high school students: P-Seminar plans a sports festival

Created: 04/12/2022, 09:09

The organizers of the practical seminar sports festival (front from left): Maxim Haag, Katharina Krepold, Lukas Jud, (back from left) teacher Sabine Mayer, Lenny Miersch, Paul Richstein, Julius Kühltau, Laurin Schindelmann, Maxi Gaul, Mika Kretschmer, Max Winkler and Stella Pohlus.

© Andrea Jaksch

A quiz on the Munich Olympics in 1972 and sports at several stations: a team from the Gautinger Gymnasium puts on a hands-on event for around 1,000 students.

Everything for a good cause.

Gauting – 50 years of the Olympics in Munich: This is the main topic of the practical seminar at Gauting's Otto-von-Taube-Gymnasium.

After a two-year Corona break, the 14-strong youth team with sports teacher Sabine Mayer will organize a big hands-on sports event on the school sports field on Tuesday, July 5th - for up to 1000 high school students.

In line with the Olympic motto "Being there is everything".

In the run-up to the P-Seminar, which is intended to impart career-orientated skills to senior high school students, Max Winkler's event team had already researched the historical background to the Munich Olympics attack half a century ago.

There will be a quiz at the sports festival, reports Winkler.

A chronological table will remind of the events of that time: The assassination attempt of September 5, 1972 was an attack by the Palestinian terrorist organization Black September on the Israeli team at the Olympic Games.

It started with the taking of hostages and ended with the murder of the Israeli hostages and the deaths of the hostage-takers and a police officer.

But the focus of the event is on team and leisure sports.

The organizers are "keen on being active and enthusiastic about sports," assures media officer Winkler.

The P seminarist is currently completing his ski instructor training, is active in the athletics group of the Gautinger Sportclub and is an enthusiastic mountain biker.

Colleague Katharina Krepold (17) is in Antje Feser's swimming club and is an enthusiastic volleyball player.

Stella Pohlus (18) is a handball player.

According to Katharina Krepold, most of the team have athletics as an additional subject.

Because the traditional sports festival at the high school was completely canceled for two years due to the corona, teacher Sabine Mayer's idea was very welcome.

In the quiz, Mika Kretschmer and Lenny Mier will recall the already forgotten assassination attempt from back then.

Various stations are set up – for ball throwing, juggling, Indiaca and javelin throwing.

Games on the beach ball field, a relay race, tournaments and athletics competitions are also on the program.

Winkler announces that there will be a stand with drinks, steak and sausage rolls to feed the students.

The sponsors are the Webasto company based in Stockdorf with 500 euros and the sponsoring association of the high school.

Other sponsors are welcome.

The proceeds from the sports festival will benefit a charitable cause: "We're still deciding whether to go to an aid organization for the relatives of the victims of the attack or to war-torn Ukraine," says Stella Pohlus.

Replacement date is July 7th

only if it should rain then, too, will the sports festival be cancelled.

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