Olympic Javelin Champion Thomas Röhler
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Frank Bohmann (Managing Director Handball Bundesliga):
"Of course, this completely destroys the business models of the sports behind football. Sports like handball, basketball and ice hockey are robbed of any business basis We'll continue to play until Christmas, if necessary without a spectator. Whether all the clubs can hold out is another piece of paper. "
Stefan Holz (Managing Director Basketball Bundesliga):
"I still see it as a bit ambivalent. On the one hand, I find it sobering that we are given concepts that we have to work out at great expense, then you do a test run. You usually do that to see whether it works. The test run worked, and yet you turn the audience away. It's simply not technical reasons, but overriding political reasons. On the other hand, of course, we also understand the overall situation, we are Part of the overall system. "
Dagmar Freitag (Chairwoman of the Bundestag Sports Committee):
"The effects on popular sport annoy me in particular, as it mainly affects those who have kept club life going in the last few weeks with great commitment and innovative concepts. Because one thing has so far been the case Undisputed: Sports events that comply with strict hygiene concepts have not been noticed as super spreaders, neither in professional nor in popular sport. This shows: If we are ready to show discipline and a sense of responsibility, many things can also work in times of the Corona. "
Fritz Keller
(President of the German Football Association):
"The measures adopted will affect many areas of daily life. With all due caution, it will also be of great importance to people, especially children, in the coming weeks and months To offer young people places of community and distraction without increasing the health risk. Our associations offer their members, who have behaved in an exemplary manner in the past few months, support and cohesion in challenging times. We need this social cement to cope with this pandemic as well as protective and preventive measures. "
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Fencer Max Hartung
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Jürgen Kessing: (President of the German Athletics Association):
"This is a tough decision for all sports clubs in Germany, especially in the amateur sports sector. Sports in Germany in particular have proven that it is possible to use good hygiene concepts in top-level and popular sports, even in Corona times To do sport and to make a contribution to social cohesion. "
Max Hartung (President Athletes Germany):
"I would like the national squad athletes to be treated uniformly as professionals and to continue their profession and prepare for their season highlight. We will quickly enter into a dialogue with politicians for the athletes and ask our members about the special features of their disciplines at the same time. Now is actually the time when we need to get into training so that we are in top form for the qualifying tournaments in the spring. But it is hard to imagine at the moment that, given the restrictions be able to work in the same way as in previous years, for example with contacts. "
"We currently have no alternatives"
Thomas Röhler (Olympic Javelin Winner):
"In the worst case, I'll be back home on Monday. But when it's three degrees outside, my hands freeze on the bar while doing strength training on the driveway."
Prof. Dr. Wilhelm Bloch (Head of the Department for Molecular and Cellular Sports Medicine at the German Sport University Cologne):
"I think we will have to deal with it all winter. Until spring and summer. I think it is not realistic over the course of the year to do sport with large crowds of spectators in winter. There will probably be no such thing outside as inside. Very clear: In sport, the clubs are the ones to suffer. But on the other hand, it is like this: We currently have no alternatives. The appeal should be that everyone is aware of their responsibility. "
Deutscher Tennis Bund (DTB):
"The German Tennis Bund (DTB) expressly endorses the measures adopted by the federal government. Nonetheless, the DTB assumes that tennis as an individual sport does not have to be stopped completely. Rather, a game for two or a double with four people from a maximum of two households will still be possible. "
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