Chancellor Scholz welcomes the planned sports funding law

Chancellor Olaf Scholz wants to promote top-class sport more and thus bring more German athletes back to the top in the world. “That is why we will be introducing a law to promote sports in the cabinet this week. The first time in Germany,” said the SPD politician in Berlin. Not only since the Summer Games in France has it been obvious that countries like France, the Netherlands and Great Britain are doing a lot better when it comes to promoting top-class sport.

Sports associations, politicians and athlete representatives have been debating a suitable sports funding law for a long time. This is intended to clearly stipulate the promotion of top-class sport independent of the respective federal government. The law is intended to provide greater planning security, reduce bureaucracy and ultimately improve the performance of athletes.

DOSB criticism: “Sports agency light”

The core of the Sports Promotion Act is the establishment of an independent sports agency. “We need an independent institution that decides unbureaucratically how funding is allocated based on sports criteria. Such a sports agency is in the interests of the athletes. She is in the spirit of trainers,” said Scholz.

After strong criticism from the DOSB and many sports associations, the Federal Ministry of the Interior revised a first draft of the Sports Promotion Act and presented it again in the summer. But this draft did not cause any enthusiasm either. “The new draft only results in a top sports agency light. According to the current legal status, the board of the future agency should be subject to too many influences from politics and administration,” the DOSB recently complained.