Board of top sports?
German sport is filling this post in its umbrella organization DOSB?
The government is determined to set up an independent authority to allocate funds.
What can and what should a representative of the association do as soon as the top-class sport GmbH with the power to dispose of hundreds of millions of euros takes over the leadership?
Quite a few think of them as a German version of UK Sport, the British agency known for its hard hand and resounding success, which invests lottery money in athletes and thus generates rich dividends in the form of Olympic medals.
How to ensure more success?
The level of suffering in German sport is great.
Practically at the moment of German unity, those happy days of success of athletes from East and West at the Barcelona Games in 1992, many competitive sports strategists understood a decline that not even the top sports reform and more and more money from the state could stop.
So how should Olaf Tabor, the upcoming board member for top-class sport in the DOSB, ensure greater success?
Simple answer: through innovation in all areas that are not the responsibility of the top-class sport GmbH.
These become all the greater the more the new agency has to deal with the crippling, bureaucratic side of promoting elite sport.
And that's what it will do: It's supposed to settle its funding with the associations, it's supposed to operate the annoying potential analysis system PotAS, possibly also the Institute for Applied Training Science (IAT) in Leipzig and the national training camp Kienbaum near Berlin.
Those in German sport who do not expect miracles from this top sport GmbH speak of it as a place where loads are unloaded: the bad bank of sport - the opposite of a super sport control.
Since the DOSB has secured influence on the design and staffing of the top sports GmbH, it will strengthen its position.
What a choice: lucky hand of the federation, free hand for Tabor.