Shortly before the Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, DOSB President Alfons Hörmannn has no more concerns about security:”The questions of security are largely resolved for our understanding,”Hörmann said on Monday at the DOSB New Year’s reception in Frankfurt/Main.
“Sport is able to build bridges – as politics cannot do elsewhere. My compliments to the IOC and its President Thomas Bach. This tactical masterpiece must first of all be achieved,”said Hörmann in view of the previous summit meeting between North and South Korea at the IOC in Lausanne.
It was there that it was decided that athletes from the two hostile countries would compete together for the first time in Olympic history. In Pyeongchang, a joint women’s ice hockey team will start.
“It is important for our athletes to travel to South Korea with this psychological signal of security,”said Hörmann. However, the 57-year-old still mourns Munich’s unsuccessful bid for the Olympic Games:”We would have loved to host the world in and around Munich at least so much.
As usual, at the New Year’s reception the prizes for the “elite students of sport” were awarded. The awards for the year 2017 went to gymnast Tabea Alt, water jumper Lou Noel Massenberg and Judoka Marlene Galandi. The Hamburg entrepreneur and patron Alexander Otto received the “Prize Pro Ehrenamt”.