Olympic base

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Olympic support points (OSP) are facilities for competitive sports in Germany . In addition to the federal support points , the state and federal performance centers , they are a structural element within the support point system for top-class German sport.

They are financed from earmarked funds from the Federal Ministry of the Interior , the respective countries and, if necessary, from other donors.

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Sculpture at an Olympic base (OSP) in Baden-Württemberg

The Olympic bases were described for the first time in the base concept of the former German Sports Federation (today: German Olympic Sports Federation ) from December 2004. The DOSB describes them as follows:

"Olympic training centers are support and service facilities for national team athletes and their trainers, and if there is free capacity, also for national team. Your main task is to ensure high-quality, complex sports medicine, physiotherapy, training and movement science, social, psychological and nutritional support, especially for the Olympic preparation of the top team in daily training or central measures of the central associations. Added to this is the regional cross-sport coordination and control of competitive sport development in the main sports. "

- German Olympic Sports Confederation (DOSB)

According to the DOSB base concept from 2013, the Olympic bases fulfill the following purposes:

  • "German athletes should train healthily and take part in competitions and, in the event of injury or illness, be able to be quickly and competently cared for and, if possible, be integrated again into the training process."
  • "The daily training process should be continuously accompanied by training science in order to create performance requirements, improve movements, control training loads and advise athletes and coaches on questions of training design."
  • "The essential prerequisites for training and competitions are created through training facilities and coaching."
  • "The athletes should be able to combine school, training and work with competitive sport."
  • "Through sports psychological training, the athletes to be supervised should be able to learn to adapt to the demands of competitive sport."
  • "The athletes should be able to eat healthy and varied."

bases

Existing Olympic bases

Olympic base in Freiburg-Black Forest
Olympic Training Center Westphalia in Dortmund (rowing)

The base system currently has the following 18 Olympic bases:

The former Olympic base and today's federal base in Tauberbischofsheim (fencing)

Former Olympic bases

Mergers

In December 2008, the Olympic training centers Cottbus / Frankfurt (Oder) and Potsdam were merged to form the Olympic training center Brandenburg.

Situation in other countries

Norway

In Norway there is a center in Oslo , the Olympiatoppen , which serves the Norwegian Olympic and Paralympic Committees as well as the Norwegian Confederation of Sports and is responsible for the training of Norwegian top-class sport.

Austria

There are six so-called Olympic centers in Austria .

Switzerland

In Switzerland there is currently no special Olympic base, but efforts by the umbrella organization Swiss Olympic to establish an Olympic base for Switzerland in order to keep up with international developments in high-performance sport with new impulses.

criticism

Use of funds and transparency

In the case of the athletes' houses, the task of the Olympic training centers is to ensure that they are used for the intended purpose, to determine the financial requirements from a federal point of view and to make the funds available and, if necessary, to coordinate and check this with the institutions responsible for the facilities. However, the Olympic bases work with very different models, which are partly related to the spatial structure and partly to the very different staffing levels. The costs per Olympic participant or medal winner resulting from the OSP are extremely different. In 2014, the Federal Audit Office criticized the use of federal funds in the OSPs and warned that they should be used appropriately and referred to the savings potential for the federal government in the future. Since the DOSB did not do anything about this, the Federal Audit Office issued another warning in 2015 and criticized the lack of transparency, which promotes the federal professional associations in very different ways.

statistics

Distribution of the current and former Olympic bases across the German federal states

state Current OSP Former OSP total
Baden-Württemberg OSP Freiburg-Black Forest , OSP Rhein-Neckar , OSP Stuttgart OSP Tauberbischofsheim 4th
Bavaria OSP Bavaria - 1
Berlin OSP Berlin - 1
Brandenburg OSP Brandenburg - 1
Bremen - - 0
Hamburg OSP Hamburg / Schleswig-Holstein - 1
Hesse OSP Hessen - 1
Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania OSP Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania - 1
Lower Saxony OSP Lower Saxony - 1
North Rhine-Westphalia OSP Rhineland , OSP Rhine-Ruhr , OSP Westphalia - 3
Rhineland-Palatinate OSP Rhineland-Palatinate / Saarland - 1
Saarland OSP Rhineland-Palatinate / Saarland - 1
Saxony OSP Chemnitz / Dresden , OSP Leipzig - 2
Saxony-Anhalt OSP Saxony-Anhalt - 1
Schleswig-Holstein OSP Hamburg / Schleswig-Holstein - 1
Thuringia OSP Thuringia - 1

The largest Olympic training centers (based on the number of national team athletes supported)

rank Olympic base Federal squad athletes
1 OSP Bavaria over 900
2 OSP Berlin over 500
3 OSP Westphalia about 500

Federal grants

Since 2010, the Federal Ministry of the Interior has funded the bases with around € 30 million a year. In 2016, OSP Berlin received the most money with € 4.28 million, ahead of OSP Bavaria with € 4.03 million. The OSP Freiburg-Black Forest received the lowest funding with € 0.71 million. The bases received a total of € 31.50 million in funding in 2016.

literature

  • German Olympic Sports Confederation (Ed.): DOSB base concept. Further development of the support point system from 2013 . 20 pages. DOSB, Frankfurt am Main 2013.

Web links

Commons : Olympiastützpunkt  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Support point concept of the German Sports Association, area of ​​competitive sports 2004.
  2. ^ DOSB: Olympic bases . Online at www.dosb.de. Retrieved August 22, 2016.
  3. ^ DOSB: DOSB base concept. Further development of the support system from 2013 ( memento of the original from August 7, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . (PDF, 1.13 MB). March 21, 2013. Online at www.dosb.de. Retrieved August 22, 2016. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dosb.de
  4. ^ Spiegel: After 31 years: Tauberbischofsheim no longer an Olympic base . July 20, 2017. Online at www.spiegel.de. Retrieved October 3, 2017.
  5. ^ Olympiazentrum.at Olympic centers in Austria . Online at www.olympiazentrum.at. Retrieved October 9, 2017.
  6. ↑ An Olympic base for Switzerland  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Online at www.cxxl.swissolympic.ch. Retrieved October 10, 2017.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / cxxl.swissolympic.ch  
  7. ↑ Eike Emrich, Ronald Wadsack: On the evaluation of the Olympic training centers: quality of care and cost structure. (= Reports and materials from the Federal Institute for Sport Science. Volume 6). Sport and Book Strauss, Cologne 2005, ISBN 3-89001-406-2 .
  8. ↑ Bundesrechnungshof: Annual Report 2014 Bes. P. 167ff.
  9. ↑ Correctiv.org: Court of Auditors: Sports funding must become more transparent ( Memento of the original from February 20, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.correctiv.org
  10. ^ Federal grants for Olympic training centers / federal management centers. In: bmi.bund.de. Federal Ministry of the Interior, Building and Home Affairs, January 12, 2017, accessed on July 10, 2018 .