AWhen they recently campaigned in Berlin to bring the Summer Olympics to the capital, they offered a selection that could easily have played a small-field soccer game. Sitting on a press podium in the town hall, with strained expressions in front of a sky-blue wall: Kai Wegner, the governing mayor; Iris Spranger, Senator for Interior Affairs and Sport; Kaweh Niroomand, representative and face of Berlin’s Olympic bid; Thomas Härtel, President of the Berlin State Sports Association; Markus Voigt, President of the Association of Berlin Merchants and Industrialists; Alexander Schirp, General Manager of the Berlin-Brandenburg business associations; Svenja Brunckhorst, Olympic champion a year ago with the 3×3 basketball players and now manager at Bundesliga club Alba. And when Wegner revealed at the beginning, in the style of an angry rector, that he had to straighten out a few things, it was clear: a crisis meeting had been scheduled here.