Some are calling for a rethink in government funding less than a week after Germany won the Basketball World Cup.
“After this summer we should finally understand that there is no universal formula for sporting success,” said Andreas Michelmann, the head of the German Handball Association and a spokesman for a wider group of five team sports including basketball.
At a time when the German government is trying to cut bureaucracy, PotAS is going “in the other direction,” Michelmann said in comments reported Thursday by the dpa news agency. Discus thrower Robert Harting posted on X, the social media platform formerly known as Twitter, after the World Cup final on Sunday that “if basketball players get an invite from the or a similar level of politics, that has to mean the death of the PotAS system.”on Tuesday was Interior Minister Nancy Faeser, whose ministry oversees sports policy and PotAS. She took a selfie with tournament MVP Dennis Schröder.
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