Weekly newspaper “Das Parliament”: CDU sports politician Lehmann relies on top-class sports reform for more medals

The CDU sports politician Jens Lehmann expects more international success for Germany from the planned reform of top-class sports funding. Germany has been falling behind in the medal table for 35 years, said the Olympic champion and former track cycling world champion in an interview with the weekly newspaper “Das Parliament”. The reform is the chance to break this trend. Lehmann criticized that so far there has been a lack of clear goals. "There were too many cooks." According to the coalition agreement, the federal government wants to do so