Overview
- Otto Fricke told Deutschlandfunk that funders should have a voice but must not decide fachliche questions in elite sport.
- The DOSB objects to a federal draft that it says was prepared unilaterally, with president Thomas Weikert calling the approach regrettable and bypassing sport.
- Central to the dispute is the planned Spitzensport-Agentur, whose decisive Stiftungsrat would give the DOSB only one of five seats.
- Fricke called for a balance of power between politics and sport, warning that neither should instrumentalize the other.
- Coverage underscores that the conflict now centers on the new agency’s governance and on securing greater expert influence in performance decisions.