Do you know that?

You watch and feel the urge to try it too.

Not necessarily the double somersault from the bar, tucked with a screw or something.

There does not have to be a slide on the roller board over the banister.

But a little run or a little pedaling, stimulate the circulation, free the head, relieve the soul.

Anno Hecker

Responsible editor for sports.

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The Japanese have Sports Day for that.

Lost.

It was on Friday when the games had not yet opened.

That was still an obvious choice.

No work, no school in the hours before the opening ceremony, no traffic chaos.

It's hard to say whether they played sports.

The government doesn't believe in it.

That's why the games.

The aim is to encourage young people to move around for a lifetime instead of just staring at screens.

Cardboard gold

If you don't believe it, you should look where you shouldn't see anything. On the spectator seats. Wherever it is allowed, in prefectures outside of Tokyo, school classes march in closed rows. It used to be different. Let's say 1976. The strict German teacher near Cologne, small, Dutt, energetic, raved about Annegret Richter and Inge Helten. Sprinters, silver and bronze. Summer Games in Montreal. A huge losing business. Later scoffers used black humor to claim that the giant fish in the Saint Lawrence River had eaten too much from sunk loads of anabolic steroids.

The tube television monster offered the same depth as the flat screen today.

Everything shone in the night.

And during the day it was re-enacted.

In the garden.

Run, jump, with the stick over the bed and, of course, new sports: swing long jump.

So jump off the swing, not at the highest point (!).

Measure width.

First.

Gold made of cardboard with hemp cord.

The body is already twitching

The third party mimicked the functionary at the solemn ceremony on the garden wall.

There was no other way with three.

Unfortunately, the swing long jump did not make it into the program.

Too bad.

Who knows what would have become of it.

The Pavlovian effect has remained: once you watch the experts in hockey, basketball, canoe slalom, cycling, and your body twitches.

Should be easy in Tokyo.

Sports facilities as far as the eye can see.

A fitness center around the corner. But Corona in the neck. 14 days bladder prescription. Hotel, Olympic bus, sports facility and back. The room remains as a place of movement. 2.50 meters high, about 2.30 wide at the widest point. Don't tell anyone that exercise is not possible in the cell just because your elbows rub against the wall when doing push-ups. Of the five main forms of stress in sport, three are regularly asked for: flexibility, coordination and, yes, perseverance - to get to and out of bed.