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Tobias Wendl and Tobias Arlt at the 2022 Olympic Games
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The golden sleigh riders face a bright future, the skaters have to worry about promotion.
The Potas Commission's report on winter sports in Germany delivered the expected results on Friday and provided the basis for the structural talks in August.
Only then will a decision be made on the funding for the Olympic cycle up to the 2026 Games in Milan and Cortina d'Ampezzo.
On behalf of the Federal Ministry of the Interior and the German Olympic Sports Confederation (DOSB), the commission set up in 2017 evaluated the winter sports associations and the individual disciplines for the second time on the basis of the core parameters of structure, squad potential and success - before and at the Winter Games in Beijing.
As expected, the top spot went to the Bobsleigh and Luge Association for Germany (BSD), which had won nine of the twelve German gold medals at the games in China.
121 questions in the form management system
"With the BSD we have a leading association that was outstanding at the Olympic Games in Beijing and is now outstanding again with the result of the potential analysis," said Dirk Schimmelpfennig, director of competitive sports at the DOSB.
"The assessments of the potential of the DEU, DESG, but also the overall somewhat improved DCV" are "by no means satisfactory".
The associations of figure skaters (DEU) and speed skaters (DESG) remained without medals in Beijing, the curlers (DCV) had not even qualified, but recently showed an upward trend with bronze at the mixed world championships.
Behind the BSD are the German Ski Association (DSV), Snowboard Germany and the German Ice Hockey Federation (DEB).
The BSD is "well positioned" in terms of sport and structure, said Urs Granacher, Chairman of the Potas Commission: "The gap to the following places is comparatively large and indicates that joint efforts by the DOSB, BMI and central associations are necessary to To secure Germany's top position in international comparison also in the future.«
The potential analysis system (Potas), the core of the top-class sport reform in Germany, is still criticized by the associations, the bureaucratic effort is still too high despite some adjustments.
121 questions had to be answered in the form management system.
»There is a brutal amount of bureaucracy behind it, we uploaded more than 1000 documents.
That's a bit much," said BSD CEO Thomas Schwab to SID.
Like basketball boss Ingo Weiss last year, he also called Potas a “bureaucratic monster”.
“I don't mean to demonize it.
I am an absolute supporter," said Schwab about the approach of evaluating the associations objectively and transparently according to sports science criteria: "But overall, the system is too theoretical for me, it should be more practical and the really relevant things should be better mapped will."
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