The indoor sports clubs from the Freising district are happy that the youth will continue at least until Christmas.
But what comes next?
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- collective sigh of relief in the district's sports clubs: Due to massive protests by the BLSV, professional associations and parents, the Council of Ministers has somewhat defused the 2G rule for twelve to 17-year-olds.
This age group, which is largely unvaccinated, would have been excluded from indoor sports - and that would have posed major problems for many clubs to keep the competition going.
But it is only a temporary easing - it ends on December 31st.
Since it is to be expected that the hospital traffic light will continue to be red for the New Year, another “leisure lockdown” for the children and adolescents is to be feared.
HSG fire letter to the sports minister
"I'm really happy that it will go on at least until Christmas," emphasizes Walter Schuhbauer, coach of the youth handball team at HSG Freising-Neufahrn. He had emailed a fire letter to Bavaria's Sports Minister Joachim Herrmann and the State Chancellery on Tuesday morning. “Nevertheless,” he says, “success looks different”. So that this age group can continue to do sports actively after Christmas, everyone would have to make a vaccination appointment immediately. "Otherwise in January we will be exactly where we are now."
Verena Hölzl, youth leader at EV Moosburg, is also relieved.
“Everyone was so happy to be able to go back to the ice rink and get out of the negative rut,” she says.
It would have particularly hit the U 13, in which the eleven and twelve year olds are grouped together.
Due to the lack of children, it would not have been possible to play any more games, said Hölzl.
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As BLSV district chief Florian Warmuth refers to the social factor of sport.
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“I am not fundamentally against the 2G rule. But only if it concerns visitors and spectators and not the athletes, ”said BEV ice hockey chairman Frank Butz when asked. On Monday, when the hospital traffic light turned red, he was active on social media - and that has probably had an effect. For him, the 2G rule is much worse than a lockdown, because "it drives a wedge into the family". That the ten-year-old should be allowed to train while the twelve-year-old brother had to say “stop” at the front door - an absurdity. School sports take place without masks, and the twelve to 17-year-olds can celebrate parties together, but because they are not vaccinated they do not do club sports in the hall - a contradiction in terms. Butz is relieved that this age group can continue to be there until the end of the year.
Lock out teenagers?
An absolute no-go
As a positive signal for club sport, BLSV district chief Florian Warmuth welcomes the loosening of the rules.
During the lockdown, you noticed how much the children lacked movement, but also the social environment that sport offered.
Michael Prill, chairman of the wrestling club Siegfried Hallbergmoos, is also happy: He hopes that politics will readjust with a view to 2022.
If the children and teenagers had been locked out again for autumn and winter without being allowed to play sports, it would have been a disaster in his view.
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Michaela Ruis from TSV Jahn Freising doesn't know how things will continue in the youth sector.
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Introducing the 2G rule in training and games for this age group "would have been a no-go," says Dejan Jankovic, volleyball department manager at SC Freising.
And he is very happy that the Bavarian state government has reversed this decision.
The 2G regulation for young people would have made training very difficult and would have made point games impossible.
It would have been to be feared that many would have turned their backs on their sport.
(By the way: Everything from the region is now also available in our regular Freising newsletter.)
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Michael Prill from Siegfried Hallbergmoos hopes that politicians will still readjust.
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Head shaking triggered the 2G rule among the basketball players of TSV Jahn Freising, who have many young people in numerous teams.
“We wouldn't have known how we should have organized all of this,” says department head Michaela Ruis.
However, those responsible have previously decided that all young people must take a test on the day of an official point game - regardless of whether they have been vaccinated or not.
Sport does not appear to be an infection driver
With a view to the end of the easing on December 31, Ruis indicates that it is not known how things will continue in the youth sector.
It is planned to ask the parents whether they want their children to continue to participate in training and point games.
She is not aware of any case in the basketball department that someone has been infected during training or games.
"The infections obviously take place outside of sport."
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Anna Klug from VfB Hallbergmoos is not known to have been infected during training.
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Anna Klug, the new head of the VfB Hallbergmoos club and coach of the volleyball players, is also pleased that the 2G rule has been withdrawn in this age group.
"Otherwise almost everything would have broken away in the youth sector." It would hardly have been possible to convey to the children that they have to go to school without vaccination, but are no longer allowed to attend training.
She is not aware of any case at VfB that kids have transmitted the virus during training.
"The broadcasts take place at parties."
