According to the organizers, the European Championships in Munich should create a good climate for possible Olympic applications and give sport in Germany a boost.
According to the organizers, the European Championships in Munich should create a good climate for possible Olympic applications and give sport in Germany a boost.
“I believe that we can leave something really great behind and I also very much hope that the population will be involved,” said Olympiapark Managing Director Marion Schöne in Munich. It would be nice if the population could then say that they could imagine major sporting events in Germany, “up to and including the Olympic Games”.
German applications have been unsuccessful seven times since 1986, also because the citizens were against it – for example when trying to host the 2022 Winter Games with Munich and the 2024 Summer Games with Hamburg. The last attempt by the Rhine-Ruhr Initiative for 2032 also failed. The upcoming summer games will take place in Paris in 2024, in Los Angeles in 2028 and in Brisbane, Australia, in 2032. The next winter hosts in 2026 are Milan and Cortina d’Ampezzo.
The last time the Olympic Games were held in Germany was in Munich in 1972 – now there is the multi-sport anniversary. The European Championships, which begin on August 11 and last until August 21, would give popular and competitive sports a boost, predicted Bavaria’s Minister of the Interior, Joachim Herrmann. In the difficult foreign policy situation, such a large sports competition is also “an important signal”.
The medals will be awarded in Munich in 177 decisions in nine Olympic sports. “There is no doubt that Munich will win the gold medal at the major sporting events this year with the European Championships,” said Juliane Seifert, State Secretary in the Federal Ministry of the Interior. “They are also a kind of starting signal for many important major sporting events that will take place in Germany in the next few years.”
Munich’s Sports Mayor Verena Dietl hopes the event will send a “signal” that “we are a cosmopolitan city”. You want to present yourself well as a “host city”.
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Source: Stern
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