Alfons Hörmann, 60, does not look satisfied at the moment.
The President of the German Olympic Sports Confederation (DOSB) doesn't feel like laughing either.
The situation in German sport due to the pandemic is too serious for that.
His worries grow with each new day of lockdown.
It is not only the massive decline in membership in the clubs that gives the Allgäu an immense headache.
WORLD:
Public health is fundamentally threatened. For many, doing sports is an elixir of life like eating and drinking. The former world-class swimmer Ursula Happe, who was Germany's oldest Olympic champion until her death four weeks ago at the age of 94, died, according to her doctor, because she had not been able to indulge in her daily habit of swimming 2,000 meters in the indoor pool every morning for a year. This is not an individual fate.
Alfons Hörmann:
Such sad examples show what consequences the pandemic can have and where our society is moving or, to put it better, not moving. The physical standstill leads in many places to the fact that after the body, soul and spirit also suffer. The physical and psychological consequential damage is increasing and becoming more and more visible.