Alfons Hörmann, president of the German Olympic Sports Confederation (DOSB), has particularly made the unsuccessful swimming and fencing federations pressure two days after the end of the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. “The swimmers have arrived at a point where there is nothing that you would not have to scrutinize critically. At this point, a turning point now is necessary,” said the 55-year-old the “Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung”.

The athletes of the German Swimming Federation (DSV) had won in Rio no medal, a sixth place was the best result. The once successful athletes of the German Fencing Association (DFB) are also gone without precious metal from Brazil. “Even with the fencers fundamental questions are obviously long been unresolved,” Hormann said.

Before the forthcoming discussion about the sports funding with German Interior Minister Thomas de Maizière stressed Hörmann also: “We have no association in the cold.”

The total yield of the German athletes in Rio fell with 17 gold medals, although significantly better than four years ago in London, as there had been eleven German Olympic victories. But the total of 2012 (44 medals) has not been reached, the only skimmed the DOSB predetermined “medal corridor” of 42- to 71-times precious metal. There were exactly 42 medals to book.