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Thomas Water is the new president of the crisis-shaken German Olympic Sports Association. With 361 to 56 votes, the 60-year-old lawyer at the DOSE General Assembly on Saturday in Weimar prevailed clearly against the German fencing president Claudia Bowel. The former table tennis world president Water sees the succession of Alfons Hermann at the top of the roof organization of the sport with around 27 million members and 90,000 clubs.

I'm a bit overwhelmed. Now let's put it together, and then we'll get ahead. Thanks also to Claudia, I do not want to do without your expertise, Water said after his choice.

I'm overwhelmed. You will not be dose president every day.

Thomas Water

The dark suit must often serve as alienation of sporting functions from the base. I want to change that, said water at his imagination speech. He wool team captain of a strong team with transparency, openness and many, right course: Give me and give us the chance that we often wear suit, but always think jersey.

Man of compensation

The family lawyer from the Hessian Limburg on the Lawn is considered a man of compensation, looking for consensual solutions and thus is the ideal cast for the top job. This is my style, that was in the German table tennis federal government, so it has been in the World Association ITF, but also in other life, said Water. Already in 2018 he was talked as a DOSE boss when a series of top associations tested the uprising against Hermann and defend themselves about his dealings and behavior.

The controversial Hermann had drawn the consequence of the affair by an anonymous employee letter and dispensed with a candidacy after eight years. In the letter, he and the DOSE leadership were kept to have created a culture of anxiety in the house of the sport in Frankfurt / Main.

We had a lot to do for our taste too much.

Thomas de Maizière, Chairman of the Ethics Commission of the DOSE

The crisis was tightened by lawyers on behalf of him and the Board of Directors Veronika Tucker to the ex board member Karin Fees. She was suspected as an author of Anonymous writing and threatened with criminal complaint and civil suit. Fees rejected the allegations decidedly.

Hermann's theory: victims of an intrigue

The Economic Manager Hermann was not traveled to Weimar because of the consequences of a corona infection on medical advice, stated in an interview with the Algae Dating (Saturday) but further his theory to become victims of an intrigue. Extensive instructions would prove that it is a very targeted overthrow on the entire tip of the DOSE, he said.

As a voluntary number one in the DOSE, wafer all hands are full. Peace, rest and trust in the umbrella organization should be in the first place. What is needed are a clever corona management, repairing the relationship with the international Olympic committee, corrections on the top sports system — even in dialogue with the new federal government on the sports issues fixed in the coalition agreement.

Ample coalition first encouraging

This is encouraging first, said the ideas of the traffic light coalition of SPD, FDP and green, but emphasized: It is clear that the policy is not allowed to proceed on one side and vice versa the DOSE will not develop together. Despite the mountain of challenges, he goes without fear to the work. I have respect, yes, he said. But finally, do not start at zero.

Claudia Bowel, since 2016 President of the German Fechter-Confederation, renounced the presence in Weimar and could only be switched digitally. The decision not to present himself personally, to dispense with any election campaign, first public support to announce support and then candidate themselves, of the former degeneration champion has liked to cost many sympathies and voices.

Railroad Olympic Champion Welder chosen to the DOSE vice-president

Railroad Olympic Champion Miriam Welt has been elected Vice-President. With 377 votes, she achieved the best result at the General Assembly in Weimar. In addition, the twelve Paralympics winner Vienna Gentle, the CSU politician Stephan Mayer, Keratin Hole, Chairman of the German Children's Turnout, and Oliver Telemann, President of the German Sportskrobik federal government, was elected in the leadership body. The three previous Vice-Presidents Guru Doll-Tepper, Petra Shoppe and Us chi Schmitz were unsuccessful with their candidatures.