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Olympia: DOSB rejects vaccine from China for German athletes

2021-03-11T16:58:24.848Z


IOC President Thomas Bach offers to deliver vaccination doses from China for all Olympic participants. In the EU, however, the vaccines are not yet approved - and therefore not an issue for the DOSB.


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Thomas Bach: The IOC President, who has just been confirmed in office, wants to provide the athletes of the upcoming Olympic Games with vaccines from China

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Thomas Bach is apparently entering into a vaccine deal with China.

The President of the International Olympic Committee wants to order a Chinese vaccine that will benefit the athletes at the Olympic and Paralympic Games in Tokyo and Beijing.

German sport generally welcomed the IOC President's offer, but the German Olympic Sports Confederation (DOSB) refused to use it for its own Olympic athletes.

They want to rely on vaccines that are approved in Germany.

No vaccine from China has yet been approved by the EU.

But that can change quickly.

Serbia is said to have already received commitments from China for two million vaccine doses, Montenegro 30,000 doses.

Hungary has apparently ordered five million cans.

How many cans will be bought at what price remained open.

It is said that the National Olympic Committee of China is providing the vaccination doses to the IOC.

At first there were no further details.

For the German team, however, one hopes for "active support of our national policy" and for a "timely vaccination before the Olympic Games from vaccine contingents that are approved in Germany," said DOSB President Alfons Hörmann

and added: "So we hope to be able to forego this offer in favor of athletes from other countries."

Experts suspect China's strategic considerations

The population in the host countries Japan (Summer Games 2021) and China (Winter Games 2022) should also benefit.

The IOC wants to finance two additional doses for each vaccination dose per athlete, which should be freely available.

Experts suspect strategic considerations behind the offer.

"For China, vaccination diplomacy is a very targeted way of binding satellite and neighboring countries and intensifying hegemony efforts with cheap sales to emerging countries," said Dr.

Gerd Boesken, sinologist and lecturer for intercultural management at the Hamburg School of Business Administration, the sports information service: “The offer to the IOC is another wonderful move for the Chinese, another good opportunity to show that their system is more suitable is. "

There is ample evidence of human rights violations in China, and the detention camps for the Uyghur minority have been documented.

Most recently, the human rights organization Human Rights Watch (HRW) wrote in an open letter to Bach: "The 2022 Games will take place under human rights conditions that are significantly worse than the 2008 Games in Beijing."

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Source: spiegel

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