Will the IOC remove bobsleigh, luge and skeleton from the Olympic programme?
Imagine if that were to happen at the next IOC session in June. Rumors to that effect are currently circulating within the Olympic family. In one fell swoop, Germany would lose 73 percent of all Olympic winter sports medals, for which hundreds of millions of euros are paid. A catastrophe.
Someone from the family of the Bobsleigh, Luge and Skeleton Federation for Germany (BSD) just wrote to me saying that he was watching me. ‘I follow your reports on sledding sports very closely...’ I like him, we exchange ideas regularly. But that doesn't change the fact that the statistical survey I conducted yesterday on the running costs for the three Olympic sliding sports is correct:
At least €340 million from public coffers (federal, state and local) will flow into the four German ice tracks, personnel, the base system, research and development, BSD measures and the athletes over the current decade.
World Record.
