No sentiment, collapsing athletes, ecological madness: The athletics world Cup in Qatar is a bitter foretaste of the football world Cup in 2022 – and shows how the Sport is addicted to the money, says Joscha Weber.
Professional athletes need to stand each a lot. They earn their livelihood with their performance, and all that is needed is done. You have to train in heat, cold, rain, snow, or hail. You subordinate everything to your objective, take hardships in stride. So we are talking about a small Elite that is accustomed to pain and not to whine. If votes from this group, raise, it means something. A “Disaster” is the world Cup, says the French decathlete Kevin Mayer, “disrespectful” is the white Russian runner Volha Mazuronak the behavior of the world Association IAAF, “abnormal” is the name of the retired German discus thrower Robert Harting, the conditions in Qatar. And the Italian Marathon runner Sara Dossena after your heat collapse in the race, only one word to describe what she has seen: “horrible”. To be awarded the world athletics Championships to Qatar was a mistake. A Failure with message.
Before the heat and its effects on the athletes, many experts had warned, was interested in the hardly anyone at the IAAF. During the Marathon athletes collapsed and wheelchairs were left, trying to get the organizer to stop the camera people to film this. These images should not see the world better. Instead, the athletics President Sebastian Coe has promised to make more water available. What a mockery. And ecological madness: In the Khalifa stadium is blown with sophisticated technology cold air and through a huge hole in the roof new hot outdoor air comes in all the time. The CO2-footprint of the competitions in Doha is likely to be unequaled in the history of the world athletics Championships.
It is a world Cup and hardly any goes
DW sports editor Joscha Weber forder “more and more athletes-participation, more transparency in the procurement process of major Sport events”
And the Bad thing: The spectacle hardly interested anyone. Half of the stands is covered with colorful banners. Half of the visible seats are empty. At the very least. Some competitions are held in front of a mind backdrop. In the process, Qatar has, according to media reports, even the construction workers paid, so they go to the stadium. “This is really a world Cup?”, the British heptathlon Olympic champion Denise Lewis is right to ask. The Deputy world chief Dahlan Al Hamad promised before the beginning of the competitions yet, “that it will always be full”, shows how brazen Qatar is trying to step into the spotlight of world public opinion.
The politically isolated country has been trying for years to operate on the sports Marketing. Arenas were pulled built training centres opened competitions on Land, athletes naturalized. All with the aim of making Qatar a global audience of well-known. Of course Sport should be competition in the Arab world forgiven, it is a legitimate goal to bring the sports world to the own country. If only a single Argument counts (money), the Sport is a Problem.
The Sport sold its soul to the highest bidder
When the athletes of heat pills to swallow and collapse, if the stadiums remain empty, when human rights are trampled during the construction of the arenas with the feet, then the Sport is guilty. More specifically, the officials awarded the world Cup to Qatar, said: although the applications of Eugene (United States) and Barcelona (Spain) were better. But Qatar seemed to have more money. That the then responsible IAAF President Lamine Diack is now in France under house arrest, makes the thing not better. Because it is only one of many examples of how the Sport sold its soul. Another example is the next soccer world Cup. In 2022, Qatar is to host and that is what we are experiencing currently in Doha, is a bitter foretaste of what is to come in three years. And for an Olympic bid, the Emirate also already in position.
The Dilemma: Long ago, the international sports federations operate according to market economic rules. The major events are primarily designed to provide growth and income. Everything else is secondary. Spear-thrower of John Vetter has a proposal for a solution: He proposes to award Events such as the athletics world Cup “only for the benefit of the money”, but also according to the opinion of the athletes. The correct thought. More consultation, more transparency in the procurement process of Mega-Events, and the Sport would have a lot less to Worry about.
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Great heat and prying cameras – of the problems of the world Championships in athleticsCompetitions in the oven Doha
Doha in September, with temperatures of above 40 degrees Celsius are normal. Even at night the Thermometer remains mostly at about 30 degrees, the humidity is 73 percent. The athletes use cooling vests and electric pills. The extreme weather conditions pose a great challenge, it was already clear in advance. But it is not so extreme, well…
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Great heat and prying cameras – of the problems of the world Championships in athleticsDown Cooled The Stadium
The Khalifa stadium in Doha is cooled during the world Cup, thanks to intensive air conditioning to a comfortable 25 degrees, but this does not solve all the problems. On the contrary, The extreme differences in temperature between the stadium-the Inner and the environment for the athletes rather an additional burden. In addition, all of the competitions in the “stadium-in refrigerator are not held of course.”
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Great heat and prying cameras – of the problems of the world Championships in athleticsCollapse in the 5,000-Meter race
Although the 5,000-Meter races take place in the interior of the Khalifa stadium, but for runners, Jonathan Busby the extreme climatic conditions and the exchange between the oppressive, humid heat, and the down-cooled stadium, with its low humidity seem to be too much. First, the man from Aruba totter, then he falls completely exhausted on the train.
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Great heat and prying cameras – of the problems of the world Championships in athleticsTogether over the finish line
Braima Suncar Dabo from Guinea-shows-Bissau as a great sports man and supports Busby on the last 200 meters. Cross the finish line, both under the cheers of the spectators in common – a Moment that makes the hearts of sports fans in what is probably the most controversial world Cup history to beat faster. The Happy-ending, however, remains: Busby is subsequently disqualified for “unauthorized assistance”.
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Great heat and prying cameras – of the problems of the world Championships in athleticsSerious allegations of athletes
Not all athletes can provide positive images and headlines. Walker Yohann Diniz champion of the world from 2017 – after the competition is over 50 kilometers of marked words to Go, he had stopped after 20 minutes: “out There, you have pushed us in a oven. You have made us Guinea pigs, experimental animals,” said the Frenchman, in the direction of those responsible.
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Great heat and prying cameras – of the problems of the world Championships in athleticsAgony in the women’s Marathon
“It was terrible. I’ve never felt so bad,” said the Italian Sara Dossena, who had to cancel after a quarter of the Marathon distance. “It was scary, intimidating and daunting,” concluded the canadian Lyndsay Tessier after a memorable race in the heat of Doha, could finish only 40 of the 68 that started athletes worthy.
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Great heat and prying cameras – of the problems of the world Championships in athleticsAlina Reh will collapse
For the German hope in the 10,000-Meter run final is also ahead of schedule. Alina Reh bent over with abdominal pain and finished the race, but the heat does not play a decisive role here. The 22-Year-old can later give the all-clear: “My belly is still a little weak, but otherwise I’m physically fine,” says the more times Junior European champion of the day after that.
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Great heat and prying cameras – of the problems of the world Championships in athletics“It was pretty in a panic”
The images from the night before remain but probably just as much in the head as the audience: After the deer was bagged in pain together you had to be in a wheelchair by the career to the investigation of dangers. “I was well looked after and felt well taken care of. From the head, it is now difficult, I still need a bit to sort this for me,” said ROE afterwards.
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Great heat and prying cameras – of the problems of the world Championships in athleticsTrouble to start block cameras
A technical innovation in the start of the athletics to give blocks around the world a boost. In order to produce spectacular, good, marketable images of Doha, installed in the starting blocks cameras, the unprecedented close-UPS of athletes faces deliver. The puffs, however, in the case of all the athletes on against love.
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Great heat and prying cameras – of the problems of the world Championships in athletics“Very unpleasant”
Germany’s Sprint Star is rising with the technological innovation do not agree: “In the scarce things about this camera to […] can I find very uncomfortable. Was involved in the development of this camera a woman? I don’t think,” Gina said gap in the Kemper. Team mate Tatjana Pinto (“highly questionable, the place of a camera to”) revealed that she is not a Fan of it.
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Great heat and prying cameras – of the problems of the world Championships in athleticsNone since
An additional Annoyance is the blank ranks in the Arena of Doha. As world class-easily ahtletik and no one is interested in. Also Highlights how the 100-meters final of the women (photo), does not fill up the ranks. Gina gap Kemper mies finds the mood in their third world Cup, therefore: “Rather!”