During a visit in Berlin, IOC President Thomas Bach for the award of the summer games in 2024 and 2028 in favour of a train. In an Interview with DW, is Bach also to the processes around the FIFA.
Mr Bach, how do you find it that the world football body, FIFA has now placed the Garcia investigation report of 2014 for the controversial double-awarding of the 2018 and 2022 world Cup on the table?
Thomas Bach: I think it is absolutely right that this report has been published. Now can make each a picture. I hope that the questions that are still open, be informed. I also hope that the Public generalizes here is unnecessary, but that it fits it properly: Where, in what context, at what time it happens? And the differences to other areas. I also hope that the Public sees that FIFA has made since then, even steps.
Russia is again at the pillory. It should have in football is a own cover-up system. In the case of FIFA, more than 150 suspicious samples that are currently investigated are allegedly. The criticism of Russia is growing?
No. This is a sign of the work that the international associations, and not only the FIFA, now: It is the work-up of the McLaren-report for the international associations are responsible, while the IOC for the events in Sochi at the Olympic Games responsible for. To the extent that the FIFA ranks in the other international professional associations, where appropriate, investigations are already underway.
Fair sporty to each other belongs to the Olympic idea. You worry in view of the ongoing Doping discussions about the Olympic idea?
Ideas and values are increasingly attacked and violated. I’m afraid that it is in Sport, as in society as Long as people are in competition with each other, there are always people trying to gain unfair competitive advantages. Anti-Doping rules there are in any other area of our society, they belong to the essence of the sport. This is exactly why Anti-Doping is so important.
Olympic hosts 2018: Pyengchang in South Korea
It was said, you’d really think about it, to block Russian athletes for the 2018 winter Olympics in Pyeongchang. It is to be assumed?
We not only think about the appropriate disciplinary Committee is already working. You must now reappraise what happened at the winter Olympics in Sochi. And not only in terms of the 28 athletes, who are referred to in the McLaren Report, but also the apparently systematic Manipulation that has taken place. This is a different situation than a year ago, in Rio, where it was a matter of sports justice learning to not let it befall, which were part of the system. This System was the international federations and Anti-Doping laboratory. Now it comes to the Olympic games. The IOC is responsible, and we will draw the necessary consequences.
The summer Olympic games in 2024 and 2028, to be awarded in a train. This is really useful?
It is for the IOC to be a Golden opportunity, if there are two outstanding candidates from two strong Olympic countries such as France and the USA, two such a great cities like Paris and Los Angeles. And if you applicants have the to interpret the Olympic Agenda 2020 really outstanding by a record number of existing and temporary sports facilities in a magnitude that we have had probably in the Olympic Games have never been, and thus the cost can be significantly reduced. I don’t think it would be very smart, if you could this opportunity be missed. That’s why hope and I am counting on the approval of the IOC members next week in Lausanne.
Teach Paris and Los Angeles the next summer games in 2024 and 2028?
We must also confront the changing political decision-making processes and to adjust. The application process is for the present time, too expensive, too much of a perfectionist, too cumbersome. If you had a few years ago an application, then the government, the Opposition, the economy and Sport have agreed to. All were happy and said: This is a strong application. Today, we live in an age of mistrust. People say: If everyone in this Establishment, must be something wrong with it. Make the only to their own Profit, and after this, we should taxpayers have to pay for this. This Zeitgeist, and we want to provide it to us. In the next week in Lausanne, a new application process is up for discussion, to then find for the winter Olympic games in 2026, and application.