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Berlin (dpa) - The Federal Ministry of the Interior does not yet want to comment specifically on the report by the German Gymnastics Federation (DTB) on allegations at the Olympic base in Saxony.
The report was received the day before and will now be checked before a decision is made on "any steps and measures that may be taken," said a spokeswoman for the ministry on Friday for the German press agency in Berlin.
After an investigation into allegations made by athletes against the Chemnitz gymnastics trainer Gabriele Frehse, the DTB believes that “serious breaches of duty” have been proven.
The DTB therefore demanded in its statement that the employment relationship be terminated by the Olympic base in Saxony.
Several athletes such as the former balance beam world champion Pauline Schäfer had accused Frehse of harassing her in training, administering medication without a doctor's prescription and not allowing any objection.
"Regardless of the individual case, the BMI is willing to promote top-class sport only if the actors in organized sport have done everything necessary to ensure that sport is free of doping, manipulation, corruption and violence," said the BMI spokeswoman.
"Only fair and rule-compliant sport deserves financial support from the public sector."
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The spokeswoman emphasized: “The incidents at the Olympic base in Saxony also give reason to focus more on sexual violence as well as the use of psychological and physical violence in elite sport or brutal training methods, to question possible systemic or structural causes and fundamentally the limits of what is permitted in competitive sport define."
The ministry expects "clear statements" from the players in autonomous sport in the near future.
The BMI wants to gradually link sport funding to the implementation of "integrity measures".
"With regard to the fight against sexual violence, the process has already been initiated," said the spokeswoman.
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