The swimming talent from Reisen supports her colleagues in the fight for trainers and bases.
Travel - Amelie Zachenhuber faces uncertain times.
As a team athlete, in contrast to many other swimming colleagues, she can currently continue to train relatively normally, but the traveler, who attends the elite sports school in Nuremberg, currently does not know how the training will continue for her next year.
The reason: a relocation of the training base from Erlangen to Nuremberg.
At first it doesn't really sound like a problem, considering that the 16-year-old goes to school in Nuremberg and goes to boarding school there.
In fact, she has been training about ten times a week at the current base in Erlangen under Roland Böller, who is responsible there, and has been a member of the Erlangen Gymnastics Association since November 1st.
However, the state base is to be relocated from Erlangen to Nuremberg and poses many questions for the young talents on site.
In order to get an answer, the boys and girls turned to the President of the Bavarian Swimming Association (BSV), Harald Walter, in an open letter and some serious allegations were raised against him personally.
On the one hand, the swimmers of the TB Erlangen complained that they had received "neither information nor reasons for relocating the base".
In the open letter, the authors quote that a “junior base for the very young athletes” is to be created in Nuremberg, and emphasize that they themselves felt forgotten.
In a statement on this open letter, however, President Walter is angry.
"As a representative of the association, but above all as an athlete and family man, it makes me very sad and at the same time angry when I have to see and read that and how very young athletes are being so ruthlessly instrumentalized by third parties." He primarily criticizes that the style of the letter indicates that it was written by legal representatives of the association.
The young people who belong to the federal or state squad make it clear several times in their letter that the successes so far speak for themselves, because "here at the state base in Erlangen, more young federal squad athletes train (pool swimming) than at all state bases in Bavaria" .
For Zachenhuber personally, this was another reason why she recently moved to Erlangen with her starting right.
By relocating the base to Nuremberg, not only would the sporting future of the multiple German year-old champion be uncertain, the work of the last few years might also have been in vain.
However, the BSV President weighs down this concern.
"Nobody forbids / forbids the club training with Mr. Roland Böller."
In the second part of the letter, the authors address Harald Walter personally.
"As a former friend of Roland Böller, as a former head of department at the TB Erlangen and now as President of the BSV, why can't you finally stop dragging us into the abyss as cadre athletes of the Bavarian Swimming Association in your personal fight against our base trainer Roland Böller [...]? "
Serious allegations related to an incident around four years ago that is said to have contributed to the current situation.
Walter clearly distances himself from these “alleged events that are completely unknown speculatively”.
The conflict has now developed so that the members of the TB Erlangen have brought in a lawyer, who in turn has filed a lawsuit against the Bavarian Swimming Association.
The President of the Bavarian Swimming Association criticizes this behavior and asks whether the immense costs incurred are financed from sponsorship money or membership fees intended for the sport.
It remains to be seen where this conflict will lead.