A sort ofn On Sunday, early in the morning in Germany, the Melbourne Herald Sun posted a cheerful medal list online. Happy for Australians. The first China, the second America, the third Japan and so on. The eleventh place, that is gag, behind the swimmer’s logo is: Emma McKean, four gold medals, three bronze medals. Twelfth place: Germany, three gold medals at this time.Do not Ian ThorpeWithout Dawn Fraser, no Australian has been more successful in the Olympics than the 27-year-old swimmer from Wollongong.
One exception. However, this is a problem for the German Swimming Association, not only on Sunday morning, but also in swimming is not the only exception, so far it has not. Australians, especially Americans, have ruled for decades.Caleb Drexel, five gold medals, is on par with comparison in every game Michael Phelps One.
Other countries have also caught up: especially the British and Chinese. However, the Germans basically did not.Two bronze medals in Magdeburg long distance pairing Sarah Kohler Florian Wellbrock is the first DSV to enter the Olympic swimming pool in 13 years. This shows how deep-rooted the crisis is. Eight DSV swimmers entered the finals, as many as there were in London in 2012, the Rio Olympics more than five years ago. But three unprecedented games were held in Tokyo, and Kohler and Will Bullock took advantage of their additional opportunities.
Autumn may be restless
Nonetheless, the national team coach Bernd Berhann correctly spoke of a “very positive approach” on Sunday. The performances of 19-year-old Isabel Gose and Lukas Märtens, 21-year-old Lucas Matzerath and Henning Mühlleitners (who finished fourth in the 400m race at the age of 24) proved this. But there is only way. The promotion, cultivation and cultivation of these methods will be crucial in the near future.
The prerequisites for this are not good.This DSV Since the nine-month presidium ousted sports director Kurschilgen in the spring, it has been in considerable turmoil. Berkhahn said that the riots took the time and energy of coaches and athletes, and the outlook was “difficult” and “all of this is unhappy.” Autumn may be restless.
But there is still a shadow over the swimming, which extends farther. In terms of track and field, Nigerian sprinter Blessing Okagbare was withdrawn from the competition between the intermediate and semi-finals by the Integrity Unit, an outsourced investigation unit deployed by the World Athletics Association in response to fraud in Russia.
If the national team coach is not familiar with the concept of swimming, what does it say? If in Tokyo and Rio de Janeiro, the Americans, the country with the most prominent swimming phenomenon, solve this problem, what will happen? What if Bernd Berkhahn has nothing and only wants it to be “fair”, but “secretly” “knows that this is not always the case”? This means that the cheerful image from Tokyo is unbelievable. No one can change this.
