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Combiner Johannes Rydzek
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Combination Olympic champion Johannes Rydzek has no understanding for the award of the Olympic Winter Games (February 4th to 20th) to Beijing.
“Winter sports have no tradition in China.
When it comes to awarding the Olympic Games, the focus is simply not on sport.
It's mainly about political and economic interests, «said Rydzek the Stuttgarter Nachrichten.
For the Nordic combined athlete, the 2018 competitions in Pyeonchang in South Korea, in which Rydzek won gold twice, were “a single object of prestige”: “Beijing will certainly be the negative climax.
Gigantism is celebrated there. "
The 29-year-old also criticized the fact that competition venues are being built for the Olympic Games that will hardly be used afterwards - as is the case for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.
“It's just as insane.
And also a sporting event that shows how money rules the world, «says Rydzek.
Before him, the two German toboggan stars Natalie Geisenberger and Felix Loch had already criticized the sports facilities in Beijing heavily, Loch spoke of "Protz".
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