Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz visits the canoe competitions at the Summer Games in Paris. He has to endure harsh criticism from two Olympic champions.
The two Olympic kayak champions Max Rendschmidt and Tom Liebscher-Lucz sharply criticized Chancellor Olaf Scholz during his visit to the Olympic Games. “It is important not that politicians are only here for the next election result, but that family and friends are there,” Rendschmidt told the editorial network Germany. “He should make decisions for the sport instead. The love of sport is always discovered when there are medals.”
His teammate from the gold foursome, Liebscher-Lucz, spoke to the Chancellor for several minutes during Scholz’s visit to the Stade nautique in Vaires-sur-Marne. “I would like to see him not only at the Olympics, but also at a World Championship or German Championship. Instead, our money will continue to be cut when we celebrate successes,” said Liebscher-Lucz. The Dresden native won gold in the foursome with Rendschmidt and Potsdam’s Jacob Schopf and Max Lemke. In the twosome, they came fifth when Schopf/Lemke won on Friday.
Financially, the loss of a second Olympic victory in Paris is not a bad thing. “There is only one gold prize. Only the highest medal counts. Double performance does not count in Germany,” said Rendschmidt. The gold prize is 20,000 euros.
Scholz’s presence “doesn’t matter”
Scholz attended the canoe competitions with his wife Britta Ernst. The fact that the Chancellor was sitting in the stands “didn’t matter” to him, said Rendschmidt. With four Olympic victories, the Essen native is the most successful German canoeist at the Summer Games.
Rendschmidt took the fact that he missed out on his fifth gold medal calmly. “You can’t always win, you have to accept that the others are better,” said the 30-year-old. Thanks went above all to national coach Arndt Hanisch, who “has sacrificed a lot of sweat and blood in recent years and probably had sleepless nights too.”
Source: Stern
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