In the wrong place at the wrong time.
Everyone knows that unpleasant feeling, you don't have to train FC Schalke 04 for that.
You can also be part of the so-called Olympic movement and feel completely out of place.
The Dane Hans Natorp couldn't take it anymore this week, in "Inside the Games" he explained why.
Meeting of the Association of National Olympic Committees ANOC in Seoul.
Right in the middle of the Olympic parallel world: the lieutenant colonel of the Russian army, Stanislav Pozdnyakov.
The man is also head of the Russian NOC and as such has nothing to do with the Russian war of aggression in Ukraine, as defined by the International Olympic Committee.
So the lieutenant colonel, chairman of the culture and education commission of the ANOC, was allowed to give a presentation.
Natorp and the other NOK bosses were shown pictures of the "International Forum of Young Olympians" and the "Sports Games of the Children of Asia" - events that took place in Moscow and Vladivostok in the summer.
Natorp had seen enough: "Russian propaganda".
The Dane got up and left.
And the Germans?
So much attitude!
And the Germans?
Only one of the main German sports officials was there: Thomas Bach, President of the International Olympic Committee, continued to work to ensure that not only Lieutenant Colonel Pozdnyakov could fulfill his peaceful mission.
Shouldn't it be possible one day in the not too distant future to reintegrate all the Russian and Belarusian sport soldiers who have nothing to do with the armies that pay their wages, much less with the war that their employers are waging?
The Russian people didn't start the war, argues Bach.
Before we dwell on the question of whether the hasty acquittal of a whole nation of war guilt is a German specialty, let's see what Bach is still demanding: "The complete politicization of sport must be prevented!" After Bach's speech, the ANOC voted the Brother of the Emir of Qatar for Vice President.