The federal and state governments agreed on Wednesday to extend the lockdown by three more weeks. This also applies to amateur sports. For the time afterwards, perspectives should be shown.
The appeals of the conference of sports ministers have not been answered. And the standstill will likely continue beyond the lockdown that has now been decided. While Chancellor Angela Merkel (CDU), in addition to schools and day care centers and the hairdressing trade, with a constant and stable seven-day incidence of no more than 35 new infections per 100,000 inhabitants, also promised easing in retail and other areas, for the time being amateur and popular sports are no relief planned.
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Mainly because of the spread of more contagious variants of the coronavirus, millions of recreational athletes have to continue doing without their training and competitions. “In the next opening steps, it is important that we show perspectives. But we have to live with the fact that we cannot predict the future,” said the Chancellor. Meanwhile, professional athletes can continue to host games and competitions with the exclusion of spectators and with strict hygiene concepts.
Working group for “safe and fair opening strategy”
The conference of sport ministers had called for sport to be taken into account in the upcoming easing. She advocates a step-by-step approach to the full resumption of sports operations in accordance with the goals of health and infection protection, it said before the deliberations of the federal and state governments.
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The resolutions of the federal-state consultations remained vague on this point: “A working group at the level of the head of the Federal Chancellery and the heads of the state and senate chancelleries” is to take the next steps in the event of possible relaxation of the contact restrictions for sport and other areas work out, it was said. “Planning perspectives” should aim at a “safe and fair opening strategy”.
Because of the persistent standstill, sports umbrella associations had repeatedly pointed out the growing concerns of the clubs, which are recording noticeable declines in members and in volunteering.
