Patrick Moster has now been sent back to Germany from Tokyo.

That’s the right decision.

After his discriminatory statements during the men's individual time trial at the gates of Tokyo, the sports director of the Federation of German Cyclists (BDR) had no place in the Olympic team.

Anyone who calls athletes from Algeria and Eritrea “camel drivers” is violating the basic values ​​of the Olympic movement.

Since this derailment happened in public and was recorded, the case was immediately clear. Moster himself declared that something like this should not happen. Athletes, officials and politicians recognized the consequences in no time and called for Mosters to resign. The delegation management of the German Olympic Sports Confederation (DOSB), appointed to react quickly, fairly and with a sure hand in such cases, needed a day to realize that they had gone crazy with clinging to Moster. Why?

Team members have already been expelled from the Olympic village for minor reasons.

In 2012, during the London Summer Games, the DOSB sent an athlete from the rowing association home because she was friends with a man belonging to the right-wing extremist milieu.

A tough decision that the then Chef de Mission, Michael Vesper, made after talking to the athlete because he believed that this was the only way to protect the athlete and the team.

A complex case.

An attitude in the back room

The Moster affair, however, left no room for long discussions.

Especially since the functionary has to serve as a role model.

His admission that he was under high pressure during the Olympic race may be true.

But he didn't slip a swear word like it happens in an unbridled moment.

To call Algerians, Eritreans “camel drivers” reflects an attitude, deposited in the back room, which comes to the fore when self-control fails.

Negative pressure.

This logic apparently remained hidden from the head of the delegation, Alfons Hörmann.

He only reacted to massive pressure, including from the International Olympic Committee.

This means that the head of organized German sport, who is the first man to constantly preach the values ​​of sport, does not meet his own requirements.

His critics hit the open flank, you have to write: your opponents, and rightly so.

The chairwoman of the sports committee in the German Bundestag speaks of a "complete failure of the German delegation leadership" and means above all Hörmann.

She had expected a wrong assessment of serious behavioral violations and now makes it clear that the Moster case has become a Hörmann case.

One could assume that the man from the Allgäu has a conflict of interest.

The Allgäu has never been accused of ever having expressed himself in a discriminatory manner.

But for years association presidents have been complaining by name and publicly about Hörmann's tendency to display disrespectful behavior towards them.

That was the subject of a general meeting.

Most recently, the chairman of the DOSB's ethics committee, Lothar de Maizière, stated that trust in the DOSB had been massively shaken. There should be new elections at the end of the year. Hörmann has declared that he no longer wants to compete. It would have been logical to refrain from the delegation leadership. Because after this prehistory there is always the suspicion that Hörmann is trivializing derailments. Because they subvert him himself.