Rower Nadja Drygalla mobbed out of German Olympic team

Right wing extremist contacts: German rower left

Nadja Drygalla rower.
The Germany-eighth in the women rocked a neo-Nazi suspected. Rower Nadja Drygalla the DRV's flagship is suspected of having contacts in the far-right scene. As was announced on Thursday, the 23-year-old from Rostock with a NPD officer is in a relationship. The German Olympic Sports Federation (DSB) responded to the allegations late Thursday evening. As Michael Vesper, Chef de Mission of the German Olympic team, said that had it - together with the tip of the Rowing Association - "to bring into being a burden on the Olympic team" with the athlete talked Drygalla was then out of the Olympic village moved out, as Vesper said in a statement. On Friday morning Drygalla traveled back to Germany.

Vespers: Without a doubt, distanced from the right wing extremist positions

DOSB spokesman Christian claw (left) and Michael Vesper, Chef de Mission of the German Olympic team
At a press conference at the German House on Friday made it clear Vespers that he has previously spoken about one and a half hours with the rower. The 23-year-old was so Vespers, "affirms credible that they are the values ​​of the Olympic Charter and in the Preamble to the Constitution declares DOSB principles laid down." It was a "non-problematic history." They have distanced themselves
unequivocally in the right positions of conversation: "If we had only the slightest test indicate that someone in our squad is xenophobic, that person would not be in the Olympic team," said Vesper. It was important for him as behaving Drygalla itself. He had no doubt that they stand by the principles of democracy, so vespers on. He denied a report saying the country has a job Drygalla Sports Federation in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania.


Ministry knew of Drygallas contacts
The Rostock Olympic rower Drygalla to have contacts in the right scene. Apparently did not know about the Home Office in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. Drygalla has left the police force in 2011. more

According to information from NDR 1 Radio MV Drygallas boyfriend was in the past year, state assembly candidate of the far-right NPD Direct in Rostock. He writes regularly for the NPD-level portal and was a leading member of the regional camaraderie "National Socialists Rostock."

Allegations against Drygalla obviously not new
The athletes Agreement
All athletes must sign before their participation in the Olympic athlete agreement. In this they are committed not only to doping-free sport, but also to the Olympic Charter. Here are the implementing regulations to be adopted by the IOC, as well as the "Fundamental Principles of Olympism". Under point five states: "Any form of discrimination against a country or a person because of race, religion, politics, gender or otherwise is incompatible with belonging to the Olympic movement."

The allegations against Drygalla are not reported to this new. Already in March 2011, reports were circulating about the flagship athlete, she was romantically involved with a neo-Nazi from Rostock. According to data from the Interior Ministry in Schwerin broke the rower their training at the police Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania last September at his own request. She was previously a member of the sports group of the police. Photos of the Internet currently Drygalla are published, they show the typical environment of scene representations - other women while posing with a clear right-wing themes. The design of this site is attributed Drygallas partner.

DRV will clarify private environment Drygallas
The German Rowing Association (DRV) will be clarified after the Olympic games, the home environment Drygallas and then decide about possible consequences, such as the Association President Kaidel Siegfried said in a news release. Drygalla was in London, resigned from her Olympic debut with the Germany-eighth in the repechage.

The tricky part is of course that one of the olympic principles is against political discrimination, which the mobbing out of rower Nadja Drygalla certainly is an example of.


Check out from Nadia Drygalla
Sports and double standards


Nadja Drygalla has left the Olympic village - they should have contact with the right wing scene. The man with whom she is accused of a relationship, is no stranger to the rowing association: He used to drive the German eighth.

The scandal of London has a history: Amsterdam, in August 2006. At the World Junior Championships Nadia Drygalla from Rostock in the German rowing eight and a third party. Michael Fischer of Rostock is the second German eighth. Six years later, the alleged relationship between Nadia and Michael Fischer Drygalla headlines.

 Because fishing is now a widely about the addition of known neo-Nazi scene in Rostock, who raced for the NPD in the regional elections. Nadja Drygalla rows still and resigned from the stern at these Olympic games in the repechage. A "rudder-Star," as it is now in some media, it was never - it suddenly makes more headlines than the Olympic victory of Germany-verifier of the men.

On Wednesday, appeared on the anti-fascist website "Combine progress," a contribution which addressed the alleged connection between Drygalla and fishermen, "Mecklenburg neo-Nazi friend at the Olympics." One day later, Nadia Drygalla who stayed at Eton in the Olympic Village of the rowers and canoeists, appointed to the team leader.

About 90 minutes they had a talk with Michael Vesper, Chef de Mission and CEO of the German Olympic Sports Federation (DSB). At the meeting in the German House also took part in Mario Woldt, sports director of the German Rowing Association (DRV). After the Olympic adventure for Nadia Drygalla was over.

Shortly before midnight the DOSB sent a press release. The DRV said, two hours later. Neither Fischer nor the NPD are mentioned in the texts. DOSB and DRV said that Nadya Drygalla had left the Olympic village, "to bring into being a burden on the Olympic team."

Nevertheless, many questions remain. For example, claims the rowing federation, until Thursday, "insights into private life" by Nadja Drygalla to have received. And although Michael Fischer for years in the junior national team rowed and won a World Cup medal? What do the Rowing Association, which prepares its athletes in week-long training camps and has thousands of diagnostic performance characteristics of its athletes really care about the people he chooses for the Olympic Games? Why Drygalla Last year, leaving the police academy Güstrow? The Interior Ministry, the main sponsor of the Olympic elite sport, said: "Since 30 September 2011 not Drygalla woman candidate is more police."

Sports and totalitarianism

DOSB General Michael Vesper said on Friday morning rather casually that he believed "that a few months" had been in a conversation with Nadja Rowing Association Drygalla. Leaders of the DRV were at the same time at Eton, in the second final day of the rowers, who again brought medals. Vesper said he wanted to focus on the DRV. He would not judge Nadja Drygalla who have stated in an interview on the eve of convincing that they would "move on the floor of the Basic Law and the Olympic Charter." He wanted to "evaluate a person by what they think themselves" and "not to interfere with their privacy, and evaluate personal relationships."

The Olympic Constitution was heavily influenced by some Nazis and fascist sympathizers professing Ideenguts. Some of the Nazi party member Carl Diem, chief organizer of the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, who introduced the Olympic torch relay, and the former IOC president Avery Brundage (USA) and Juan Antonio Samaranch (Spain). Brundage had in 1936 opposed calls for a boycott of American Jewish organizations and thus Adolf Hitler's propaganda games delivered works. Samaranch was former Sports Minister franquistischer. Sports and totalitarianism are weird companions.

Evidence of links of East German athletes in the right wing scene

 Of course, the sport is a reflection of society. Of course there was always evidence of links mainly East German athletes in the battle scene right. Neo-Nazis recruit among their offspring like football fans - and that's long been known. Sports associations like the Association, which has recently refurbished its brown official story, or just the DOSB try to counteract with various projects.

Nadja is Drygalla that Olympiaruderin, a right-wing extremists? Michael Vesper, formerly co-founder of the Green Party, says he does not have that impression. In the hysteria of the first reports, he asks to be remembered. "We're talking about a 23-year-old young woman I talked with her extensively about their development and their attitudes." Beyond individual cases, there was no evidence that the neo-fascism of professional sports in Germany would be incredibly close. "The thesis I want to reject it," said Vesper.

"I think the sport is quite resistant to the scene of right wingers," said Martin Sauer, helmsman of Germany-verifier. "I know what is in the fundamental law," said Olympic champion Sauer, who studied law in Bochum, and speaks briefly about "Article 5 and the freedom of expression". Martin Sauer Nadja Drygulla from training camps and competitions has known for many years. "She has nowhere even given the best that she has any friends."