(ATR) The DOSB, Germany's Olympic Committee, will decide on a candidate city for the 2024 Olympics early next year.
On Monday, DOSB president Alfons Hörmann told Frankfurter newspaper Allgemeine Zeitung that the confederation will wait until the first half of 2015 until determining whether Berlin or Hamburg will bid for the 2024 Olympics. The DOSB could make their decision at an assembly on Dec. 6 in Dresden.
"I suggest to take enough time for our decision. It could happen that we decide in December to work towards an Olympic bid, but we may also decide to wait for the results of the Agenda 2020 process and the further development of the concepts of Berlin and Hamburg," Hörmannwas quoted as saying.
"The worst option would be, that we choose a city and its citizens will not support the project."
"A second Munich must not happen to us," he added, alluding to the referendum that ended a Munich 2022 Olympic bid.
Hörmann said that a German Olympic bid would have to work around Euro 2020 and Euro 2024. Germany is hosting part of the European football tournament in 2020 and bidding for the 2024 event. Football's influence on German sport would likely increase, he added--a potentially worrying development.
"We must all ask ourselves whether an imbalance is reached, this is cause for great concern," he said.
"Is our sports landscape almost influenced too much by football?"
Written by Andrew Murrell.
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