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DOSB Nominated 436 Athletes For Beijing

The team is: The German Olympic Sports Federation has 236 more athletes for the Summer Games in Beijing named. Among handballer, football and women riders team. Only two sports can be found without German participation instead of - or maybe three.

Hamburg - 24 days before the kick-off in Beijing, the German Olympic Sports Federation (DOSB) on Tuesday the last 236 athletes for the Olympic Summer Games announced. To travel the German team with an expected 436-strong deployment to China. "This is a powerful team," DOSB president Thomas Bach.

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However, the German team for twelve athletes still out, if the basketball player in this week at the Olympic qualifying tournament in Athens fail, which is currently handled by the match against the Cape Verde starts (14.30 clock, live ticker Online Newspaper ONLINE). If successful, this would be the German sports at the 302 decisions made by Beijing (August 8 to 24) in 26 of the 28 sports represented. Only baseball and softball remained vacant. Last reporting deadline by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) is 21 July.
Among the nominees on Tuesday include gold hopes as the German handballer, the football and women riders with Meredith Michaels-Beerbaum, Ludger Beerbaum and Isabell Werth. Four years ago in Athens the German team consisted of 452 athletes and won a medal of the sixth level 49-times precious metals (13 Gold/16 Silber/20 bronze). The most successful team since reunification in 1992 were with 82 medals (33/21/28), the grßte four years later in Atlanta with 469 athletes.

There were in the nomination of seven individual cases, including those of the injured discus world champion Franka Dietzsch, despite a lack of qualification in the Olympic team was appointed. Not the team belongs Wimbledon semi-finalist Rainer Schüttler. They said Michael Vesper, Chef de Mission of the German Olympic team: "Shaker was currently not be nominated because it is national qualification criteria, but not international." For the professional tennis this week is the chance of participating as a drawback on the world rankings but still to qualify.
The German swimming federation (DSV) has also Vipa Bernhardt after the DOSB for nomination to the Olympic Games in Beijing and is therefore proposed a specific procedure in Einstweiligen available by the district court followed Kassel. The Präsidialkommission the DOSB will now until 20 July on the case. "I've never experienced that an athlete tries Recalling formal errors a colleague from the boxing team," said Bach. Otherwise, the DOSB wanted to not comment on pending proceedings.

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your starting place in Beijing could be Anne Poleska lose. The third in 2004 in Athens, charged that it repeatedly in the USA for the Coral Springs swim club at the start gone wrong, what they're after the statutes of the DSV in the Olympic qualifiers in Berlin would not start. There had Poleska over 200 meters breast actually behind Sarah Poewe the second Olympic ticket secured. Bernhardt had also undercut the required standard, but was only third.
addition to the athletes have been around for the five million-euro "Corporate Olympics", which is about 70 percent by the Federal Interior Ministry is financed, including 317 Official appointed. In its review of a doping past and a former Stasi activities, there were 19 findings by the Birthler Authority. In three cases, invited the Gauck Commission hearings on the DOSB, which led in one case, no nomination was made. The name was not known.

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