you Must unsubscribe an already full, überteure city of the European Championships? Yes – because in a Museum, it is good to be alive.

comment by Heiner Effern

Must Sport this full, growly, and überteure city is now a large-scale event after another fight? To attract even more people? This question could arise, because the city is applying to the European Championships in 2022, the European Championships in six or seven different sports. After all, the footballers with their EM in the Fröttmaninger Arena 2020 and 2024 are already a guest there in the early 2020s will also take place in a Champions League final. In addition, the high cost of speaking against the application. Nevertheless, the advantages outweigh, in the aggregate, the city Council has made the right choice.

The Olympic Park as a potential center of the competitions is in need of such a big event. It would be far more than a suitable Present for 50. Birthday, namely an important sign for the future, in particular for the centrepiece Olympic stadium. 50 years after the Olympic athletics competitions worldwide, this respected building would experience again what it was built: the sports competitions at the highest level. Or, in other words, would be sending the League a clear message: The Olympic stadium is alive.

Why is this important? To is right the city decided, for the Olympic Park the Status of Unesco world cultural heritage sites. However, such a decision may also be the first step on the way to a Museum, a place of the past.

This is particularly true for the Olympic stadium, which is currently in a run-down, miserable existence with a couple of Open-Air concerts. Even car races were held under the unique tent roof. Similar to the importance of a Europe would be a championship with an identity crisis, fighting Olympic regatta facility in Oberschleißheim. A fly in the ointment is that both sports sites are redeveloped, this will not be achieved until 2022. Successful Europe would show Championships, that it’s worth it, both of these sites also to keep physically fit and to secure, not only as a backdrop. In a lively, hospitable city it is to live better than in a Unesco Museum.